James Sturtevant

There is a lot of hype around AI right now, and I was a skeptic for a long time as many close friends know.

Containerd provides a mechanism that allows runtime authors to integrate with containerd via the shim api.

When setting up the Debugger for Rust in VS Code you have two options depending on which operating system you are running on.

I’ve been learning how to deal with I/O Completion ports for my latest project and found a few libraries that manage it all for me but I was getting strange behavior, So I ended up having to dig deep enough to understand what was happening.

I have been learning rust lately.

Most of the kubernetes build tooling doesn’t work on Windows but we do have unit tests written for Windows components.

If you are doing development or working with Kubernetes cluster api these are some helpful tips.

In a large code base it can be hard to figure out where files are.

I have been working on making containerd work well on Windows with Kubernetes.

I have been working on adding IPV6 support to the Azure cluster api provider (CAPZ) over the last few weeks.

When deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster you are required to use a service principal.

Yesterday I had to revert to the command line to debug a program I was working on (long story as to why).

NOTE: This project is no longer actively maintained and some of the information might be outdated.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) uses the acs-engine project behind the scenes.

I have been using windows containers a lot in the last month and the other day I was asked how to do something.

Creating a Secure Fabric cluster in Azure has become easier.

Sometimes you want to be able to deploy and develop applications locally with out having to spin up an entire cluster.

The accompanying source code can be found at https://github.com/jsturtevant/azure-event-grid-nodejs.

This is a two part series.

In the previous post on running Azure Functions on Kubernetes we deployed everything using manual commands.

The accompanying source code can be found at github.com/jsturtevant/azure-service-fabric-actor-fsm.

I often get asked how to get trained up on a given Microsoft technology.

I have started using Bash for Windows as part of my workflow.

In Service Fabric, when your guest executable relies on a configuration file, the file must be put in the same folder as the executable.

There are two ways to create Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) agents: Hosted and Private.

Docker Swarm introduced Secrets in version 1.13, which enables your share secrets across the cluster securely and only with the containers that need access to them.

This post will cover how to deploy a Python Website to Azure Web Apps for Linux using python.

A while back I was working a one-click Azure Deploy button for the Hoodie sample application.

When working with an opensource project it is important to not keep the keys in your source control, otherwise this happens.

This past weekend I was able to partcipate in Hack Harvard 2016 as a mentor.

This week I updated Visual Studio’s version of Xamarin.

Today I upgrade my ASP.NET Core application from version 1.0 to version 1.0.1 because of a bug in Entity Framework.

This week I ran into an issue when deploying a Service Fabric service where a library file was not being copied to the output directory.

After adding a reference to retrieve a Service Fabric Actor to my ASP.NET Core Web API project I got the following error when making the call to create the actor using IMyActor actor = ActorProxy.Create<IMyActor>(actorId, serviceuri);: System.IO.FileNotFo…

At the time of writing there is no official template for integrating ASP.NET Core (RC2) with Service Fabric in a Stateless Service so I though I would dive in and see if I could get it to work by looking at the ASP.NET 4.6 Web API Template that is current…

I have had to start the Service Fabric Cluster Manager a few times without starting Visual Studio and deploying the application for talks or demos.

Git is a major part of a developers work flow these days no matter what platform you work on.

Azure Service Fabric is a manage service that abstracts the server infrastructure away from you.

In my previous post I talked about how Azure Service Fabric went to General Availability in Azure and why it was important.

The model for Service Fabric allows for flexibility when it comes to designing the individual services, giving you the ability to pick the right programming model for each service.

For the last few years there has been a major shift at Microsoft, one that has culminated in news from Build 2016 that I don’t think anyone saw coming… Bash on Windows The most exciting announcement for me to come out of Microsoft Build is that Bash Shell…

It has been just over a year since I wrote a post on running Jekyll in Windows using Vagrant.

Project Oxford is cool.

I got hooked on Elixir after reading Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas so I had to figure out how to install it on Windows.

While debugging your Azure Web App deployments it is sometimes useful to view the files that are deployed to the service.

NOTE: This extention is no longer needed.

Update (12/18/2015): It is possible to compile ASP.NET 5 for the full .NET Framework on a Mac or Linux machine using Mono.

Although you could still follow the instructions below to setup a PostgreSQL database manually you should checkout the fully managed Azure Database for PostgreSQL or find a PostgreSQL solution in the Azure Market Place.

In this interview I talk with Bryan Soltis from Kentico.

There are alot of Visual Studio extensions out there and it has always surprised me at the number of Visual Studio users don’t know some of the must have extensions.