Self Signed Certificate for Identity Server 4 and SSL in Ubuntu 16.04 server To sign our JWT tokens, Identity Server 4 requires a signing credential. Today we will see how we can create our own key and provide it to Identity Server to be used as signing credential. Configure ASP NET Core Create key with openssl Selfsigned certificate for local SSL usage If you are new to Identity Server, you

Multi environment logging with Serilog for AspNet Core Few months ago we saw how to get started with Serilog. We discovered what was Serilog and the different concepts of settings, enrichers and sinks. Today we will see how we can take Serilog further and configure a logging mechanism for an application running in multi environment. Setup Serilog Multi environment AWS CloudWatch 1. Setup

Setup a CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab for ASPNET Core on Ubuntu Few weeks ago I explained how we could setup a CI/CD pipeline whereby the runner would be on Windows and the last stage was to package the application. Today we will see how we can setup a runner on Ubuntu CI server and use it to build and deploy an ASP MET Core application onto a Ubuntu 16.04 server. This post will be composed by three

Bundle Bootstrap using Webpack Few weeks ago I talked about LibMan which was a tools preinstalled on Visual Studio 2017 preview allowing local download of cdnjs minified css/js. Today I will show how we can configure Webpack with npm to manage libraries like Bootstrap and minify both css and js while applying all its good algorithm like tree shacking. Get started with Webpack Bundle js Bundle

Custom Minio Grain Storage for Microsoft Orleans Grains states in Orleans are stored in a grain storage. Orleans ships with multiple highly available storage implementation like Azure blob storage or AWS Dynamodb. Today we will see how we can implement our own grain storage which will store grains on Minio, an open source free private cloud storage. Implement a simple blob storage abstraction