.NET Patching with GitHub Actions with Martin Costello

Automating Monthly .NET Patching with GitHub Actions and dotnet-outdated With the productivity and performance benefits developers gain from using modern .NET over .NET Framework, also comes the less-exciting flip-side - patching the version of .NET in production environments every month to keep your applications secure. Keeping up-to-date with security and reliability fixes is an important ongoing activity within software development, but it’s not very exciting, and it can be easy to fall behind - what if we could automate the process of patching our applications? In this talk, we’ll explore how we can use the flexibility of GitHub Actions together with tools such as dotnet-outdated to automatically patch .NET applications on a monthly basis with minimal manual effort. -About the Speaker Martin Costello .NET developer, tester and Microsoft MVP Martin is a software developer and tester based in London. Currently holding the position of Principal Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, he has been actively engaged in software development since 2006. Martin's expertise predominantly lies in C# and ASP.NET, along with associated technologies, as well as Cloud infrastructure on both Azure and AWS platforms. Since 2019, he has also been honored as a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-costello/ https://twitter.com/martin_costello - Links https://dotnetsheff.co.uk https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/295236323/ https://twitter.com/dotnetsheff - The Video Recorded by Adam Bright (https://twitter.com/adam_lx) Mixed by Kevin Smith (https://twitter.com/kev_bite) - dotnetsheff dotnetsheff is a monthly user group focused on software development, particularly in the .NET ecosystem. We welcome people with interests in software development of all ages and levels of experience