Brady Gaster is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes of making it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!

Topics of Discussion:

[2:49] Brady’s career highlights and how throwing parties prepared him for Microsoft.

[4:07] History of Microsoft’s publishing tools and their evolution towards cloud-native development.

[7:37] Using Azure Container Apps for containerization and publishing to Kubernetes.

[13:42] Using Aspire for containerized applications in Azure, including toolchain and orchestration.

[17:36] Simplifying software development with automation.

[23:27] Azure subscriptions and provisioning for developers.

[25:38] AZD infra synth.

[26:15] Using Azure DevOps and Azure Development Environments for named environments in .NET development.

[30:39] The system of record for the names of the environments.

[37:13] What we can look forward to with the next release.

[38:37] What should we know about Microsoft Learn so far?

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“Brady Gaster: Orleans — Episode 221”

NET Aspire Preview 4

.NET Aspire Documentation

Brady Gaster

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Raziel is the Senior Vice President of Codefresh at Octopus Deploy. He is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, and software developer at heart. He is the Founder of Codefresh and is passionate about accelerating the way software is disrupting our day-to-day life by simplifying the way we deploy applications.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:23] When Raziel first got interested in making a difference in the industry.

[3:05] The role of the software developer has evolved over time.

[7:11] What is GitOps?

[14:46] Overlap with the concept of infrastructure as code.

[14:57] Simplifying software deployment using GitOps.

[20:44] Why it’s an exciting time to be in software development.

[22:55] What can we do with Codefresh?

[25:24] Does Codefresh work with other infrastructure types?

[26:29] Storing and managing application configuration and infrastructure code in separate Git repositories.

[29:10] What are the most common reasons this infrastructure repository would have a commit pushed to it?

[35:27] Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy.

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Codefresh

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Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:47] Glenn’s career path.

[6:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET.

[8:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software.

[9:40] The evolution of .NET.

[9:53] .NET core.

[14:04] New features and ideas presented at .NET Conf.

[16:26] Aspire.

[18:58] Every piece of an Aspire solution uses open Telemetry as a standard.

[19:26] Redis.

[27:15] Aspire knows all the “what’ and “how” to deploy to the cloud, without explicit cloud knowledge.

[32:36] The intent of AZD.

[36:57] Handling the components of Aspire.

[40:21] How to add custom resources to Aspire.

[41:00] Opinionated vs non-opinionated development in the .NET ecosystem.

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Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

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Glenn Condron on New Capabilities on .NET - Ep 58

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Building Cloud Native Apps with .NET 8

Introducing .NET Aspire

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