I know nothing (or very little) about Kubernetes. It is high time I do something to learn more about it. Kubernetes is a powerful tool for managing containerized applications, and it’s becoming a must-have skill for developers and DevOps engineers. In this blog, I’ll share my journey as a beginner exploring Kubernetes,...
.NET Aspire 9.2 is here, bringing exciting new features to simplify infrastructure visualization. Whether you’re managing microservices or exploring Docker-based architectures, this release makes it easier than ever to create detailed infrastructure diagrams with minimal effort. Let’s dive into the highlights and see...
Logs are a critical part of monitoring and debugging modern applications. By integrating OpenTelemetry logs with Grafana using Loki and Alloy, you can centralize your log data, making it easier to analyze and monitor your .NET applications. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the setup process and share how these tools...
Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform that allows you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics data. It is a popular tool for monitoring systems, applications, and services in real-time. In this post, I will guide you through setting up Grafana in Docker to monitor a simple .NET API. Setting...
A long time ago in my SysAdmin days, I was a big fan of Nagios . Recently, I decided to revisit it and see if I could run it in a Docker container to monitor my local network. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up Nagios monitoring using Docker. Finding a Docker Image for Nagios First, we need to...
This morning I was listening to a podcast where the new features coming out for SQL Server 2022 were being discussed. This starting me thinking about what would be involved in upgrading. Upgrading production environments is complex and there are licensing considerations to take into account. However for non production...
I know Active Directory is fussy about clocks being in sync however not sure how todays issue happened. I run my docker compose file from Visual Studio and I get a weird error. SecurityTokenNotYetValidException: IDX10222: Lifetime validation failed. The token is not yet valid. ValidFrom: 'System.DateTime', Current...
Recently I have been investigating what all the fuss is about Docker and it has been well worth my time as Docker is pretty awesome for automating stuff. My development environment has typically required installing SQL Server. SQL is a bit of a beast with lots of options and takes time to setup how you want. However...