We run regular security scans against our resources using AppCheck and one of the issues it’s recently picked up is that we’re using an older version of openssh on our Ubuntu virtual machines which has potential vulnerabilities in it. Although these vulnerabilities are unlikely to be exploitable in our specific Read more…
When working with GitHub workflows it’s possible to checkout different repositories to the one that the workflows are present in. However if the source repository is private you’ll get a not found error when trying to clone it even if the target repository is in the same organisation as the Read more…
I’m currently creating GitHub Action pipelines for building and testing multiple solutions within a single large monorepo. These solutions target a variety of .NET versions so in order to allow them all to run in my pipeline I need to include install all the required versions. This worked fine using Read more…
I’ve previously written about how to return an image from an Azure Function which deals with returning a generated image from the function, however it’s also useful to return images which might be stored elsewhere such as in Azure Blob Storage or an AWS S3 bucket. I’ve created an example Read more…
We’ve recently implemented Redis caching in an API which took a little bit of time to figure out. Redis caching is available through the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed package and this also supports other provides such as NCache. In our case we only wanted to enable Redis caching for the stg and prd Read more…
We have a build pipeline running in GitHub Actions that builds a .NET 6 web in a Docker container and then publishes it to AWS. Within this pipeline we have a manual step where we can chose the source branch or tag and the environment it should be deployed to Read more…
We’re currently working on a .NET backend API project that retrieves data from a MySQL database and returns it to a frontend React app. As this is a migration project we’re working with a pre-existing MySQL database which given it’s currently supporting a live application we’re loath to make structural Read more…
We’re currently using Fluent Assertions to help make writing tests for our project a bit easier. This is a very handy library and certainly helps to make test conditions easier to specify and more readable. One issue we did have though was how to exclude specific child properties from a Read more…
The current solution I’m working on is composed of 11 seperate projects, 3 of which are test projects. As part of our CI/CD deployment pipeline we want to be able to generate a code coverage report for these projects which is displayed as a comment on the PR in GitHub. Read more…
If you use IHttpContextAccessor in any services then you may need to mock it for unit tests. It’s quite a complicated class but in order to mock the request URL the below code can be used.