Adding a new runner to Github Actions

We may bring our infrastructure into github and configure our own servers for a CI/CD pipeline

The servers that do the heavylifting are called "runners", so we need to add runner into our Github Actions

click on actions > new runner or directly use that link https://github.com/organizations/<your-organization>/settings/actions/runners/new

This allows the user to add a new self-hosted runner to github actions. We may also group these runners under runner-groups as well.

Github will provide instructions depending on the OS type the runner instance uses.

Then just follow the instructions for download,configure and run on the runner instance.

Note: If you get the error on a windows runner , "Powershell Invoke-WebRequest Fails with SSL/TLS Secure Channel" just use below command on powershell:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

After you finish download and start configuring the runner, the screen below will be shown in the powershell.

The config will ask for a several config labels (runner group, runner label etc.)

When the configuration is completed, just execute run.cmd. Self hosted runner will be ready for taking orders from Github.

Hiding IIS headers

IIS web server is exposing itself to outside by providing some response headers. That is nice however it leads to widening of attack surface, in terms of cybersecurity. To hide response headers like "Powered by ASP.NET", we may just go into IIS Panel > Response Headers and

Using a soap service in net core

We need to use svcutil tool to generate client for a soap client in .net core. Install it from CLI using the command below. dotnet tool install --global dotnet-svcutil Then you can check the version by --help parameter. dotnet-svcutil --help to generate a client stub for a soap service, we

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