azure_appconfig

.NET Aspire configuration patterns

September 09, 2024 10 minute read

If you recall my last article, I transitioned my working application to .NET Aspire. This opinionated pattern allows me to run a complete microservice application within Docker Desktop, but then seamlessly deploy to Azure Container Apps and other platform services with the same code base. This is a great productivity boost for a developer. My current project builds an OIDC identity service that has both username/password (local) authentication and social logins like Google and Facebook. To ...

Using Azure App Configuration for Remote Config with Android

September 22, 2019 11 minute read

I’ve been playing with a new app recently. I decided I needed some support from the cloud around feature flags (turning on and off features for specific people so I can test things) and for remote configuration. Fortunately, Azure has a service in preview - App Configuration - and it does both of these things. There are preview libraries to go along with it for .NET, Java 8, JavaScript, and Python. Sadly, there is no library for Android Java. Fortunately, we can fix that! Let’s take a l...