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Story time At the company I currently work for, our CI pipelines run on a dedicated server that we own and manage on premise. This build server is using Atlassian Bamboo and is configured to run the builds using agents running directly inside the host OS which means builds share and depend on components installed on the host OS. This configuration has been working fine for us and we rarely run into issues with it. Last week, however, one of the CI pipelines started to fail suddenly and at the worst time as it was a day before a hard deadline. We didn’t know what went wrong with the build server. We had no idea whether someone made a change to the host OS causing our build to throw this random error and we had no time to fully investigate the issue. ...

In the previous post I showed how to setup a Dotnet Core WebApi project to run inside docker. In part 2, I’ll go over what is needed to containerize an SQL server and connect the WebApi to it. What do you need? This post assumes you have Docker Community Edition installed on your machine. If not, you can grab a copy from here. Containerizing Microsoft SQL Server Thankfully, Microsoft has created a base image for the SQL server which I will be using in this blog post. The image is available on the official docker registry. You can find it here. ...

I have been hearing a lot of people talking about docker and all of the benefits it introduces and they got me interested in the technology. However, I only recently managed to get some time to play around with Docker. What I attempted to do was to take a DotNet Core WebApi project that I’m building and containerize it. The WebApi project was build initially with no intention of containerizing and it was surprising how easy it is to get it up and running in docker. ...

Today marks the official beginning of the SoundsMatic journey. What is SoundsMatic? SoundsMatic is a new personal project that I’ll be working on. It is a UWP application built for the latest version of Windows 10 (as of today, that is version 1903 - Build 18362.239). It is a Music application with the following goals in mind: Focus on local music collection management including tag editing. Integration with 3rd party online services to provide additional features such as searching for lyrics, concert dates, charts, and more. Integration with Scrobbling services such as last.fm. Focus on performance. UWP? Yes, I want the app to run on Windows 10 Desktops, tablets, 2-in-1s, and XBox too. ...