// Containers

Manually maintaining SDKs across multiple programming languages is slow, error-prone, and a constant drag on developer velocity. This episode—featuring developer advocate Steve Kuching—explores using the open-source OpenAPI Generator to automate SDK creation from an OpenAPI spec, deploying the generator as a containerised service, and observing the entire pipeline with OpenTelemetry auto-tracing and Lumigo. Learn how to apply the same build, test, and observe principles you use for services to your SDK generation pipeline.

Chris and Matt solve a recurring ToolUp Days pain point — inconsistent developer environments — by setting up GitHub Codespaces with a custom dev container. They extend a community .NET template to include Go, configure Dapr component files for local Azure Storage access, and leverage Codespaces secrets as injected environment variables to avoid storing credentials in source code. By the end of the session they have a fully reproducible, cloud-hosted development environment that spins up in seconds.

Chris and Matt spend this episode tracking down why the World Events Engine keeps crashing on startup in Azure Container Apps — tracing the root cause to a missing GitHub Container Registry credentials block in the Infrastructure as Code and a GitHub Actions token permissions gap. The session also covers Dapr component naming conventions, storage queue message formatting, container app log analysis, and planning a dedicated GitHub Codespaces episode.

Chris and Matt deploy the World Events Engine to Azure Container Apps — encountering and fixing a real-world GitHub Actions deployment bug caused by parallel runs generating duplicate container names. The episode covers Dapr storage queue bindings, service invocation between microservices, random bar-type modifier logic, and a viewer-prompted conversation about using GitHub Codespaces to standardise the development environment.

Chris and Matt set up federated identity credentials (OIDC) for passwordless GitHub Actions authentication to Azure, deploy container apps via CI/CD, and discuss workflow trigger strategies for container image deployments.

Chris and Matt debug deployment issues in Azure Container Apps, restructure their Bicep infrastructure as code into separate lifecycles, and configure Dapr state store components backed by Azure Storage.

Chris and Matt deploy their containerized microservices to Azure Container Apps for the first time, pulling images from GitHub Packages and exploring the Dapr, KEDA, and Envoy integrations that Container Apps provides.

Your monthly digest covering a packed May 2022 — headlined by Microsoft Build! In this episode, Chris walks through Azure Container Apps going generally available (and why it's one to watch), the limited access preview of Azure OpenAI Service with GPT-3 and Codex models, Azure DNS Private Resolver for hybrid name resolution, Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc GA, NGINX natively integrated on Azure, AKS host process containers in preview, Azure Communication Services Email GA, hierarchical partition keys in Cosmos DB, and much more. Plus GitHub and Azure DevOps highlights from a very busy month for the developer ecosystem.

Technology is always evolving. We’ve seen physical machines turn into virtual. Virtual machines turn into containers. But often, those containers need an orchestrator like Kubernetes to reap the full benefits. What if there was a simpler option? Join Tighe and Chris as they introduce you to Azure Container Apps (Preview), Dapr and Keda - Helping you get started on your serverless cloud native journey.

Chris and Matt containerize their Go microservices by writing Dockerfiles, building images, and publishing them to GitHub Packages container registry using GitHub Actions workflows with GITHUB_TOKEN authentication.