At one of my customers, everything is still on premise hosted on multiple IIS web servers. To deploy web applications, we are using Web Deploy . This works quite nicely and allows us to deploy web application in an automated way. Last week, a colleague contacted me after configuring the deployment pipeline in Azure DevOps. When the pipeline tried to deploy the application, it failed with the following error message: "System.Exception: Error: Source does not support parameter called 'IIS Web Application Name'. Must be one of (Environment)" Here is a more complete build log to get some extra context: Starting deployment of IIS Web Deploy Package : \DevDrop\BOSS.Intern.Web.zip">\DevDrop\BOSS.Intern.Web.zip">\DevDrop\BOSS.Intern.Web.zip">\DevDrop\BOSS.Intern.Web.zip">\\<servername>\DevDrop\BOSS.Intern.Web.zip Performing deployment in parallel on all the machines. Deployment started for machine: <servername> with port
In message-driven systems, configuring consumers correctly is key to achieving maintainable, scalable, and flexible systems. In MassTransit, two common approaches to achieve this are using ConsumerDefinitions and Endpoint configuration . While both serve the purpose of defining how consumers work within the system, they differ in terms of flexibility, separation of concerns, and implementation details. In this post, we’ll explore the differences and best practices for using them. MassTransit Consumers: The Basics Before diving into the comparison, let’s briefly cover what a consumer is in MassTransit. A consumer is a class responsible for handling incoming messages in a message broker (such as RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus). Consumers are central to the processing pipeline and play a key role in event-driven architectures. Here is a simple example: Consumer Configuration The question is now how will this consumer be wired to the underlying transport mechanism. As mentioned