Daily DevOps & .NET - Where Code Meets Culture

Happy New Year 2026! 🎉

Fix one piece of technical debt this week—not next quarter. .NET 10, analyzers, and tests are ready; discipline is the only missing part.

The .NET CLI? Reliable. Boring. You run dotnet build, dotnet test, dotnet publish, done. Real DevOps work happens in Dockerfiles, CI/CD configs, and specialized tools. The CLI does its job but was never built for actual operational workflows.

.NET 10 changes this. Four additions that sound minor but fix real problems I’ve hit in production pipelines for years: native container publishing, ephemeral tool execution, better cross-platform packaging, and machine-readable schemas. Not flashy. Not keynote material. But they’re the kind of improvements that save hours every week once you’re running them at scale.

Will they replace your current workflow? Depends on what you’re building. Let’s look at what actually changed.

Let me tell you what I’ve learned over the years from watching teams deploy logging strategies that looked great on paper and failed spectacularly at 3 AM when production burned.

It’s not that they didn’t know the theory. They’d read the Azure documentation. They’d seen the structured logging samples. They’d studied distributed tracing. The real problem was different: they knew what to do but had no idea why it mattered until production broke catastrophically.