Docker, .NET Core, and Azure DevOps; Oh My!

Building .NET Core applications automatically require effort, but the benefits to your organization and customers can be huge. Azure DevOps has a set of tools that make it easier to build .NET Core applications and eventually Dockerize them. In this demo-heavy talk, Sidney will show you how to use the new Azure DevOps tooling to automate builds and releases of .NET Core applications in your organization. The session will specifically focus on the new YAML build pipeline, building Release pipelines, integrating Azure Pipelines with GitHub repositories and creating GitHub releases automatically. Building on top of that, Sidney will then show you how to use Docker in every stage of your CI and CD processes. The session will feature demos on using a Docker container image for your build agents, building Docker images in Azure Pipelines and pushing new container images to Docker Hub automatically.

Note to organizers: Deck and source code is here (https://github.com/campazure/docker_netcore_containers)

The MSAL.NET Library just made writing authentication code cool again!

If you have ever tried to write code to connect to Azure AD in the past, then you know the pain of ADAL and the original API that was required to connect your application to your organization’s identities.

That pain is now long gone! The Microsoft Identity Platform has streamlined the way you write code to the point that you can get a token from Azure AD in ~5 lines of code.

In this talk, Sidney Andrews will walk you through how to authenticate to the Microsoft Identity Platform manually using just a browser and Postman, how to do the same authentication steps using the slick MSAL.NET library, and then some of the APIs you can access post-authentication such as the Microsoft Graph.

Build Azure Build & Release Pipelines Quickly using YAML

If you are looking to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using Azure Pipelines, it’s time to seriously consider learning how to build a pipeline with YAML. With Azure Pipelines, you can take advantage of cloud-hosted agents to quickly perform your build using instructions that are easily source controlled, managed and modified.

In this talk, you will learn how to use YAML to collaborate on the construction of builds that are simple enough to understand that anyone on your team can ram-up quickly. You will also learn how to perform CI and CD from a single file using multi-stage and multi-job builds. Finally, you will learn how to use containers to make it even easier to build any programming language or platform.