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Release Please is an excellent library from Google that simplifies the management of releases for projects. However, it is not immediately apparent from the Release Please documentation that you can very easily get this working for your .NET projects. In this article we’ll take a quick tour of how to configure release please for a .NET project and how it can save you time and effort. What is Release Please? In a nutshell, Release Please is a tool that can be run as a CLI or a GitHub action, that looks over the commit history for a repository.

The world of .NET is going through a transformation. The .NET Framework is reaching end of life, .NET Core is an increasingly feature rich and robust platform to develop solutions which target Linux, MacOS, embedded devices, containers and more. There’s also the .NET Standard. But what does this mean for .NET Framework projects? In this article I’ll describe how to modernise your .NET Framework projects for .NET Core, the .NET Standard and .

In this article I’ll share some observations, tips and tricks for the Linux Foundation’s “Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification and exam. I’ve been operating Kubernetes in multiple environments for a few years now. I thought this would be an easy certification to get, but I was surprised by how hard it was! I took this exam without doing any formal training, I mostly focused on the areas of the curriculum which I knew I was a little weak at.

In this article we’ll look at a few simple techniques which can really supercharge your Java project and make them much easier to work with! Semantic Versioning Why Does This Matter? The Semantic Versioning Specification Using Semantic Versions The Challenge of Semantic Versions Conventional Commits Time for Magic Enforcing Conventional Commits with Git Hooks How the Hook Works Creating the Initial Release Go Forth And DevOps The Gradle Version That’s It tl;dr If you know the concepts, then just jump straight to my fork of standard-version at github.

I have rebuilt my “Effective Shell” series as an online book - it’s available now on: https://effective-shell.com The whole site is built from a GitHub repo at github.com/dwmkerr/effective-shell. It is open for contributions, changes, issues and suggestions. I’ve also added a comment section to each page to get input. To keep the material as accessible as possible, I have added a new section for beginners, to help anyone who has not used a shell before.

In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the various different types of shell commands that exist and how this can affect your work. By the end of this chapter, you might even be able to make sense of the horrifying and perfectly syntactically valid code below: which $(where $(what $(whence $(whereis who)))) Part 1: Navigating the Command Line Part 2: Become a Clipboard Gymnast Part 3: Getting Help Part 4: Moving Around Part 5: Interlude - Understanding the Shell Part 6: Everything You Don’t Need to Know About Job Control Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands What Are Commands?

Job control is a feature of most shells, which is generally not particularly intuitive to work with. However, knowing the basics can help prevent you from getting yourself into a tangle, and can from time to time make certain tasks a little easier. In this chapter, we’ll look at the main features of job control, why it can be a problematic, and some alternatives. Part 1: Navigating the Command Line Part 2: Become a Clipboard Gymnast Part 3: Getting Help Part 4: Moving Around Part 5: Interlude - Understanding the Shell Part 6: Everything You Don’t Need to Know About Job Control Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands What Is Job Control?

This is the first ‘interlude’ in my Effective Shell series. These interludes give some background, history or more flavour to some of the topics. Part 1: Navigating the Command Line Part 2: Become a Clipboard Gymnast Part 3: Getting Help Part 4: Moving Around Part 5: Interlude - Understanding the Shell Part 6: Everything You Don’t Need to Know About Job Control Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands This one should be high-level enough for even non-technical readers to enjoy (or at least understand!

In this article I’ll demonstrate how to use Golang to manipulate Kubernetes Custom Resources, with Istio as an example. No knowledge of Istio is needed, I’ll just use it to demonstrate the concepts! Istio is a highly popular Service Mesh platform which allows engineers to quickly add telemetry, advanced traffic management and more to their service-based applications. One interesting element of how Istio works is that when deployed into a Kubernetes cluster, many key configuration objects are handled as Custom Resources.

Recently I needed to be able to quickly adjust the number of replicas in a Kubernetes Replication Controller. The original solution I’d seen pulled down the spec, modified it, then updated it. There’s a better way! There’s a patch API for Kubernetes resources. Patching resources is faster and easier than pulling them and updating the spec wholesale. However, the documentation is a little limited. After some trial and error I got it working, here’s the solution.