How to use Microsoft Azure and Edge devices to digitally transform business and create value adding digital services in IIoT workloads

In the below article, published by CrateDB, I go into detail how the team and I used cutting edge technology to digitally transform a traditional line of business using Edge devices, a suite of Microsoft Azure SaaS and PaaS services and their full capabilities such as Azure IoT Hub, Azure API Management, Azure Event Hub, serverless Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps and more, in a global IIoT use case, and how we used the data to create value adding digital services.

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.NET 6 Preview 1 launched and will be the first LTS version of the unified .NET platform

.NET 6 is the upcoming new major version of .NET, the fruition of the effort to unify APIs and runtimes into one fully uniform platform. .NET 6 will include the final parts of the .NET unification vision originally set in 2019.

The .NET 6 preview 1 released on February 17th includes some interesting new features, e.g. improved ARM64 and Windows ACL support and the ability to build native desktop applications for #windows10 (and MacOS) using #blazor

Below are some quick steps on getting started developing a #docker#containerized .NET 6 app and deploy with CI/CD pipelines to a #kubernetescluster
1. Ensure your #visualstudio 2019 version is at version 16.4 Preview 4 and that preview .NET SDKs is enabled in your VS settings
2. Update your #dockerfile base images for NET 6. (Don’t forget that #dockerfiles are case-sensitive)
3. Add a UseDotNet@2 task in your build YAML, as the .NET 6 SDK is not yet available on the #windows-2019 / #ubuntu 20.04 images

#dotnet6 is off to a flying start and it’s going to be exciting to see what more features are added up until the full LTS release in November 2021.