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Tidy up - Unused Project and Nuget package reference using Visual Studio 2019

If you are a Developer/Architect using Visual Studio as IDE for your development activities, this blog post will be of your interest. During the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. As part of version 16.10 Preview 1, one of the cool features they introduced is to "Remove Unused References..." for any Projects and Nuget packages that are not in use. At the time of writing this blog post, we have Visual Studio Version 16.10.0 (official release) which includes this new feature.  As part of development, we generally get carried away and introduce new Nuget package references to your project and add new references to your Projects. By the end of development, you will not be 100% sure which are not being referenced and unused which means you will leave those unused project references in your application. Now you might be wondering what's the big deal in it since it doesn't harm. The advantage of removing unused project r

Automate Certificate Issue and Renewal process - k8s cluster

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In this blog post, we will see if you have an existing or new Kubernetes cluster with Ingress resources how do we auto-renew the certificates. If it's not auto-renewed things need to be manually done e.g. every three months you have to renew certificates, delete the expired certificate and secret, update with new certificate secrets accordingly.  Manual is always tedious and not an ideal solution especially for your Test & Production environment.  Pre-requisites Install and setup kubectl Install and setup Helm Kubernetes cluster already provisioned with Ingress resources. Note: The scope of the blog post is to show how the certificate renewal process can be automated, the same logic can be moved to your Deployment pipelines. Install Cert Manager Installing Cert-Manager CRDs using the below command. #For Kubernetes 1.15+ kubectl apply --validate = false \ -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.

Azure App Configuration - How it's different from Azure Key Vault?

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Azure App Configuration is a cloud-based managed service that helps developers and infrastructure team members to centralize and manage application configurations and feature flags. Using Azure App Configuration helps to separate application configuration from code. One of the  Twelve-Factor App  principles states  strict separation of config from code  with Azure App configuration this can be easily achieved. Azure App Configuration is now generally available as a free or paid service based on the  pricing  tier you choose as part of provisioning the service.  In the modern world, applications often can run in different geographical locations, can be hosted on services like App Services, virtual machines, Serverless functions, Azure Container Instance, AKS, etc. Managing application configuration for all this type of service can be done in a centralized location using App configuration which means your operations and support team members need not go to N number of places to look for a