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Video: Building and Running Custom ASP.NET Core Containers

I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar for Pluralsight where I talked about how you can use Docker to build and run custom ASP.NET Core containers. The containers can be run locally on your machine, on a company server within an on-prem data center, or even in the cloud. Here are the …

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5 Actions You Can Take To Reduce Anxiety/Stress and Increase Overall Wellbeing

Zen Garden Meditation by EliasSch Have you struggled much with anxiety or worry in your life? They can be easy to avoid when things are going good, but how do you handle them in more stressful situations? What can you do to help minimize anxiety, worry, and stress in your job, family, and other …

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New Pluralsight Course - Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code

I’m excited to announce the release of my next course on Pluralsight titled Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code! This course is the next in the Kubernetes for Developers learning path and focuses on different techniques that can be used to deploy your containerized applications to …

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Using the Kubernetes JavaScript Client Library

I've been working with Kubernetes a lot and focusing on various deployment techniques that can be used (such as Blue-Green Deployments) for a Pluralsight course I'm creating called Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code. If you're new to Blue-Green Deployments, here's a quick overview: …

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Enabling Metrics Server for Kubernetes on Docker Desktop

Lately we've been working on a new Docker and Kubernetes instructor-led training class that we'll be running onsite at several companies this year. The class uses Docker Desktop and the Kubernetes features it provides for several of the chapters. We needed to get the local cluster students will use …

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New Pluralsight Course: Creating Object-oriented TypeScript Code

I’m excited to announce the release of another course on Pluralsight titled Creating Object-oriented TypeScript Code! If you've been wanting to learn more about ES2015 features as well as object-oriented features available in TypeScript then this this is the class for you! Here are a few questions …

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Observable Store - Now with Support for the Redux DevTools

Observable Store now supports extensions! These can be added when the application first loads by calling ObservableStore.addExtension(). The first built-in extension adds Redux DevTools integration into applications that use Observable Store. The extension can be found in the …

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Using the Docker "before" Filter to Remove Multiple Images

I recently needed to cleanup a bunch of old Docker images on a VM that I run in Azure. While I could remove each image one by one using the standard docker rmi \IMAGE IDS\ command, removing multiple images all at once as a batch was preferable. It turns out that removing a specific range of images …

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Installing MongoDB on Mac Catalina using Homebrew

I recently bought a new iMac and moved all of my files over using Time Machine. The migration went really well overall and within a few hours I had my development machine up and running. After starting an application I'm building I quickly realized that I couldn't get MongoDB to start. Running the …

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Observable Store 2.0 Released on npm!

I'm excited to announce the release of Observable Store 2.0 on npm! You can get started using it with the standard npm install command: bash npm install @codewithdan/observable-store The Github repository provides information about the specific steps to get started and how Observable Store can be …

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