AWS Step Functions – what they are (not a how to)

Had a little time to go “technology fishing” which is where I was exploring a feature in AWS that I was not very much exposed to. Here’s a high level overview of what AWS step functions are. Thanks for watching. Hope this may help someone.

Azure Service Fabric Mesh

I was sort of playing around (much in the way an architect would if they were trying to get a feel for the landscape of what something is about at a high level) with the Azure Service Fabric Mesh. I did a little video on it. I don’t claim to be an expert on it. I did walk away knowing what the service fabric mesh is about now 🙂 I love learning.

Here’s the tutorial

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric-mesh/service-fabric-mesh-tutorial-create-dotnetcore

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric-mesh/service-fabric-mesh-overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-reliable-actors-introduction

and part 2 where we update/upgrade the app to have another column

Also when done, don’t forget to cleanup by deleting your resource group so that you won’t be charged extra.

In the Azure CLI


az group delete --resource-group "your resource group name"


Or thru powershell


Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name "your resource group name"


2018 Global Azure Bootcamp in St. Louis

Attended the St. Louis Azure Bootcamp hosted by our friends at ArchitectNow (thanks Kevin Grossnicklaus and crew).

https://github.com/ArchitectNow/Global-Azure-Bootcamp-2019

There are 3 labs.

I finished the first one at home (Modernizing legacy apps). It will cost you approx $12 in Azure credits to complete.

Here is lab 3 which is the Containers/Kubernetes (in AKS) one. I created a summary of what you’ll see if you do it. I’m sorry that I did not do that for lab 1.

Serverless Framework in dotnet / C#

I’ve been exploring the serverless framework and took some courses in it using writing handlers in node.js. But since I do a lot of C#/.NET development too, I thought I’d do an example (not as many out there in .net) in C# by creating a starter project with the serverless framework.

Code on https://github.com/kousekt/aws-serverless-rest-dotnet

https://serverless.com/

AWS CodeDeploy, CodePipeline with Jenkins Build Step

About a year ago, I did a post on utilizing CodeDeploy/CodePipeline for a .NET 1.1 and 2.0 project which included the cloudformation templates

Deploy .NET Core 2.0 app to AWS using Cloudformation/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy

I’m doing another review of AWS Code pipeline/deploy and Jenkins as it’s been a while since I had to use CodeDeploy/CodePipeline.

Thought I’d make a video demonstrating the tutorial here

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/tutorials-four-stage-pipeline.html

and part 2 (I accidentally ended part1)