Chris Ayers

My name is Chris Ayers. I'm a Senior Azure Fast Track Engineer at Microsoft with over 20 years experience in development, administration, and architecture. My opinions are my own.

Tampa, FL Joined on Sep 29, 2019 https://chris-ayers.com/

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DevOps, GitHub, .NET, DAPR, Kubernetes, KEDA

Always DevOps, Security, Containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud!

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Chris Ayers

Apr 10

Writing Regex with Copilot

#development #regex #githubcopilot

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Apr 10

Containerizing .NET - Part 2 - Considerations

#development #c #dotnet #containers

8 min read

Chris Ayers

Apr 10

Dev Containers - Part 1

#development #containers #docker #devops

8 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 3 '23

Containerizing .NET - Part 1

#development #csharp #dotnet #containers

7 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 2 '23

Two Incredible Years at Microsoft

#blog #microsoft #azure #devops

6 min read

Chris Ayers

Aug 29 '23

Enhancing Your Workflow with the GitHub Actions VSCode Extension

#tools #vscode #github #githubactions

3 min read

Chris Ayers

May 18 '23

Embedding Draw.io Diagrams in VSCode

#tools #vscode #drawio #markdown

5 min read

Chris Ayers

May 18 '23

Optimizing VSCode Startup Time with Profiles

#tools #vscode

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Apr 5 '23

Secure Terraform - Part 5 - Terraform State

#devops #terraform #security #tools

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 31 '23

Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization

#tools #marp #markdown #mermaid

6 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 27 '23

Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown

#tools #github #markdown #marp

5 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 27 '23

Secure Terraform - Part 4 - checkov

#development #terraform #security #tools

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 23 '23

Secure Terraform - Part 3 - terrascan

#development #terraform #security #tools

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 23 '23

Secure Terraform - Part 2 - tfsec Customization

#development #terraform #security #tools

5 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 23 '23

Secure Terraform - Part 1 - tfsec

#development #terraform #security #tools

6 min read

Chris Ayers

Mar 27 '23

Multiple Domains on GitHub Pages

#development #github #dns #cloudflare

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 27 '22

Customizing the Jekyll Theme

#development #jekyll #github #markdown

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 27 '22

Migrating from WordPress to GitHub Pages

#development #wordpress #jekyll #github

4 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 27 '22

Validating .NET Configuration

#development #dotnet #configuration

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Dec 27 '22

Tools for working with Kubernetes

#tools #kubernetes

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 8 '22

Presenting Best Practices – Part 1

#softskills #presenting #speaking

5 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 8 '22

Time to follow my Dream – I’m joining Microsoft!!!!

#uncategorized #microsoft

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 8 '22

Containers and VMs: What is the difference?

#development #devops #tools #containers

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 8 '22

Scripting Winget

#devops #tools #cli #microsoft

5 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 8 '22

Clearing NuGet Caches

#tools #cli #devops #dotnet

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jun 6 '21

DevOps – The Stakeholders

#devops

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Feb 27 '20

Shared Focus

#development #devops

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Feb 26 '20

How Do You Boil the Ocean?

#devops

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Feb 26 '20

Snake Oil DevOps – BEWARE!

#devops

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Feb 24 '20

What is DevOps?

#devops

1 min read

Chris Ayers

Feb 24 '20

Some Tools to Help Present Git

#development #devops #tools #git

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

WSL2, Docker, and Time

#tools #docker #linux #windows

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

Dependency Injection, Architecture, and Testing

#development #c #dependencyinjection #di

6 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

Presenting with VS Code – Screencast mode

#tools #code #presenting #speaking

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

RESTful API Versioning

#development #api #rest #restful

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

ARM – Part 3: Hook up the Pipes

#devops #arm #armtemplates #azure

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

ARM – Part 2: Azure Quickstart Templates

#devops #arm #armtemplates #azure

3 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

ARM – Part 1: Azure Resource Manager

#devops #arm #armtemplates #azure

2 min read

Chris Ayers

Jan 28 '20

Blog Incoming

#uncategorized

1 min read

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