Lesson 5.16: Redeploy SimpleRPG Game to New Storage Account

Our game is now dependent on our Azure Function web services. All of the local game data has been deleted, so the game no longer runs standalone, and it will not launch if it doesn't have an internet connection during startup. However, since we load and cache the game data from the web services at … Continue reading Lesson 5.16: Redeploy SimpleRPG Game to New Storage Account →

Lesson 5.11: Create CI Pipeline for Azure Functions Project

Early in our development of the SimpleRPG game project, we set up a continuous integration pipeline to automate our build with every repo check-in. Now we are going to set up another pipeline for our game services. Since the services are in their own repository and solution and have different deployment requirements, we will need … Continue reading Lesson 5.11: Create CI Pipeline for Azure Functions Project →

Lesson 5.4: Create New Azure Functions Project

As we discussed in the introduction to this chapter, we will be learning how to use Azure Functions to build the web services for our game. Azure has several compute and hosting options to pick from, but since we're investigating the serverless options, Azure Functions makes the most sense. But let's take a quick look … Continue reading Lesson 5.4: Create New Azure Functions Project →

Lesson 5.3: Create Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Blazor app

Now that we have our game building automatically in Azure Pipelines and an Azure Storage account configured to host our application, we need to build an automated pipeline to deploy new builds to the desired storage account. We will do this by using the Releases pipeline in Azure DevOps. Similar to Continuous Integration (which we … Continue reading Lesson 5.3: Create Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Blazor app →

Lesson 2.11: The Wrap

We have created our initial game engine which supports a player, location, game world, and moving around within it. Then we created the UI elements/components to display those in our game screen. We now have a game that we can move around in and investigate the images and descriptions of each location in our limited … Continue reading Lesson 2.11: The Wrap →

Lesson 1.11: The Wrap

We've put a lot of infrastructure in place for our initial Simple RPG game. This is a good spot to wrap up the first chapter of lessons. And logically these lessons are steps that we would need to do for any Blazor application or game that we create: Create a DevOps project and repository.Clone Git … Continue reading Lesson 1.11: The Wrap →

Lesson 1.9: Azure Build Pipeline

Now that we have a Blazor app and test projects, we will create an automated build that will build our code whenever changes are committed into Azure DevOps. Automated builds ensure that any code check-ins always build on clean systems and all of our tests continue to run and pass continuously. Automated builds are an … Continue reading Lesson 1.9: Azure Build Pipeline →

Lesson 1.3: Setting up Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps is a tool for managing source code, work items, test plans, and CI/CD pipelines. When we are building production software, we need to manage our code and work efficiently. Azure DevOps gives us the tools to do that. And it supports industry-leading tools, like Git, Docker, and Kubernetes, so we can use the … Continue reading Lesson 1.3: Setting up Azure DevOps →

Lesson 1.2: The Prerequisites

To follow along with these lessons, we are going to need some basic knowledge and tools. This in not an introductory tutorial on programming or the basics of C#. If you would like some of those there are a lot of materials and tutorials for that. But you can certainly pick things up along the … Continue reading Lesson 1.2: The Prerequisites →

Azure DevOps Pipelines

I spent this long holiday weekend (who knew President's Day was a holiday? 🙂 ) reading and learning Azure DevOps Pipelines to help automate the build and release processes. I've used several build scripts before at work and even copied some to get a new library or service building, but I hadn't had the chance … Continue reading Azure DevOps Pipelines →