Run locally, call from anywhere: Debugging cloud apps with Dev Tunnels

Room 7Wed 28 Oct • 11:10–12:10Cloud & DevOpsIntermediate
How cool would it be to be able to access the services, hosted on your development environment running the code, from anywhere in a secure and controlled way? Even if you are behind firewalls and gateways, as long as you have internet connectivity your development machine can be reached from the internet with the help of Microsoft Dev Tunnels. In this session we will discover the scenarios enabled by Dev Tunnels, such as debugging and testing your APIs locally when called from a remote environment running in the cloud. To have webhooks from pipelines call into your machine, or receive production events and run the handlers on your laptop, and much more. We will look at the architecture and inner workings of Dev Tunnels and how to securely setup tunnels and connections. You are going to learn to use the CLI and even programmatically add Dev Tunnel capabilities to your code and tools. Collaborating across developer machines, run production demos partially from your laptop, and have a fast development workflow for testing and debugging cloud applications has never been easier. It runs on your machine. Dev Tunnels will let you call it from anywhere.

About the speaker

Alex Thissen

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies since 2007. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.