Chasing DevOps
A blog about software development, DevOps, and delivering value.
Author: jesse
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Script: Deleting all Evicted Pods in Kubernetes
Do you have a lot of evicted pods that need to be deleted in your Kubernetes cluster? Use the script below to clean them up. This script will search for evicted pods across all namespaces and delete them. You’ll find both a Powershell and bash version below. What are evicted pods? Kubernetes will evict pods […]
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Dependency Injection in Azure Functions
The simplicity of Azure Functions makes it tempting to avoid following good design practices like dependency injection. The default project template doesn’t even support it. This may be fine for learning and quick experiments but would be a mistake for production code. Simplicity is not an excuse for bad engineering. Luckily, setting up dependency injection […]
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Creating a User Assigned Managed Identity in an ARM Template
I’m working on a new project that will use managed identities to access an SQL database from a function app. I chose to use a user-assigned identity to simplify our deployment scenario. We use deployment slots for zero downtime deployments and I want to assign a single identity to control database access across those slots. […]
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Using Azure.Identity to Connect to Azure SQL
The new Azure.Identity library hit GA this month. I’ve been wanting to modify a lot of our services to use managed identities and this library, through the use of DefaultAzureIdentity, finally streamlines the experience between local development and running in Azure. So far only the most common Azure SDK packages have first-class support for it, […]
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My job is hurting my career! How do I fix it?
I recently read a post on a career advice board from a software engineer who was worried his job was hurting his career. He worked with “legacy code” at a boring company where nothing ever changed. They were stuck with outdated systems and poor development/IT practices. He felt behind in the industry and was worried […]
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Paging in Azure Cosmos DB SQL .NET SDK
Record paging is a really common requirement for APIs that expose a lot of data. Paging in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API is done using continuation tokens. This post demonstrates how to use them to implement a paged API. When querying Cosmos DB through the REST API you can specify a maximum count to return in […]
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Powershell DSC Extension: Opening Firewall Ports with DSC
I am NOT a systems administrator. But as I’m studying for the 70-532 exam one of the objectives is using the Powershell DSC extension. Most of the basic examples I’ve seen revolve around installing IIS, which was good but I wanted to try something else. So I decided to try opening firewall ports with DSC. […]
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Build ARM Templates to Simplify Deployments
One of the first Azure-specific projects I worked on was a script to create all of the resources needed to run our application. It used the Azure Powershell module to build those resources and then deploy the application. That script saved a lot of time but it was error-prone and a headache to modify. Just […]
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Extending SQL Generation in Entity Framework Core
I’ve been working on a project where we’re migrating a data access layer from an old ORM to Entity Framework Core. The old ORM has some features that EF Core doesn’t support, so I was tasked with seeing if the SQL generation in Entity Framework Core’s SQL Server provider could be extended to support what […]
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Testing Entity Framework Core Migrations
It’s a good practice to always test your EF migration code when you create a new migration, especially if you are manually tweaking the Up() or Down() code. If that code doesn’t apply the changes properly it could put the database in a bad state and break migrations if you try to run it again. […]
Jesse Barocio
Software developer, DevOps engineer, and productivity tool nut. Continuously improving. Have a question or problem you need solved? Email me!
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