Infrastructure as C#

Introduction After attempting the .Net tutorial on deploying a simple WebAPI based microservice to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), wanted a better way to represent my infrastructure than the YAML.xml file. This was partly because of me being novice in YAML format and partly to have a way to abstract the infrastructure in order to make it repeatable and it should be not just confined to AKS. The first solution to this problem was to use a framework like Terraform to define my infrastructure as code. But this will lead me learn new language and language constructs like loops, conditions etc. The search was over pretty soon after I found a framework called Pulumi, that lets me write my infrastructure in many of the populate programming language including C#. So i decided to convert the .Net tutorial YAML into a pulumi project and see how well it runs. ...

July 26, 2020 · 3 min · 557 words · Me