Security Sending logs from home network to Azure Log Analytics I had this thought of using the power of the cloud to secure my home network - basically centralizing interesting logs from various devices on my home network in a Azure Log Analytics Workspace. This would then let me work with this data across sources and play with fun KQL
Development Remote development with VSCode The @code team shimmied down my chimney really early this year with a awesome present! Finally, I can use my WSL and containerized environments for development in VSCode (also SSH, but thus far hasn't been my need). Introducing Remote Development for @code 🚀💻🛰️ A new set of extensions that
Application Insights Instrumenting Ghost with Application Insights Track Ghost requests, performance, exceptions, dependency calls,etc with Application Insights using a custom Docker image.
Docker Docker multi-stage build + Azure Artifacts = true Problem: When running tasks like dotnet restore inside a Docker multi-stage build, it will fail if nuget.config refers to a Azure Artifacts feed due to 401 - Unauthorized. If using the built-in Azure DevOps tasks for restoring packages, this is taken care for you - once you do this
Docker Running MongoDb in Docker with authentication This is mostly a "note to self" kind of thing as I keep having to look up how to run MongoDb with authentication enabled for local development. The easy way is to specify two environment variables: * MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME * MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD However, this will give
Docker Docker build and Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts allows you to host your own NuGet-feed, which is great, but it introduces a slight complexity in the form of authentication and building Docker images. Azure DevOps' tasks for restoring packages will handle this for you as well as dotnet restore locally will re-use your own credentials.