dotnet

If you have ever migrated an ASP.NET application from Azure App Service or IIS to Kubernetes, there is a good chance that ASP.NET Data Protection was not something you had to think about — until things started breaking in subtle and confusing ways. Users getting logged out seemingly at random, cookie validation failures appearing under load, or errors that only materialise after a deployment. These are the classic symptoms of a Data Protection configuration that has not been adapted for a distributed, containerised environment. [Read More]

When performing .NET Multi-stage builds within a Dockerfile, it may be required to restore some artifacts from an Azure DevOps Artifact Feed. I have previosuly seen this process being achieved by using the Replace Tokens Azure DevOps Task to insert a PAT token into the Dockerfile during the build pipeline. This approach requires that you to update your nuget.config files to include a <packageSourceCredentials></packageSourceCredentials> section with a Username and ClearTextPassword key, then use token replacement for the value. [Read More]