Adding Swagger to Existing .Net Core WEB API Project

In this article we will see How we can add Swagger to an existing WebAPI project.

First why we need swagger here in this case?

Unlike SAOP based web sevrices or WCF Services, WebAPI are RESTFul. That means there is no WSDL in WebAPI. So Unless you prepare proper documentation about the methods, parameters and outputs, its hard to any consumer of the service to interpret them.

This is where swagger comes into the picture. If you use swagger and SwaggerUI in your WebAPI project, it pretty much takes care of the documentation part. It not only gives you the complete details of methods, parameters and outputs of the sevice, but also provides a UI component where consumers can test the service, without any third party tools.

Azure DevOps 101 - Creating your first Build and Release Pipelines for automated deployments to DEV, QA and PROD

DevOps: I cannot do justice to DevOps in a single article. Its an Ocean. But for our purposes here is what i would say if some one asks me about it.

"DevOps is a practice in which all the stakeholders were actively involved in entire lifecycle of product from Development , Testing, Productionizing and Production Support."

Core values of DevOps defined by CAMS - Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing.

This is eagle eye view of the core values.

Lets talk about second core value, Automation. Its not about just automation of everything in software life cycle.

Automation: It talks about fastening stages of SDLC with continuous integration and delivery thus reducing effort and time to roll new changes. Multiple changes getting tested and deployed in a day - make people's life a lot better. Please keep in mind "Automation" in DevOps means giving prefference to "People over Process over Tools". 

Please reffer to various guides or gurus for deep dive into DevOps.

Our objective here is to implement CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continues Delivery) in Azure and learn how to cofigure your first Azure Devops Build and Release pipelines. Using which we will push our code to various stages DEV, QA and PROD.