🚀 DotNet DevOps Pipeline

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📌 Project Overview

DotNet DevOps Pipeline is a fully automated production-ready CI/CD DevOps showcase project built using .NET 8, Docker, GitHub Actions, and Render Cloud.

This project demonstrates how to build, test, containerize, and deploy a modern web API into a real production environment using professional DevOps workflows.

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🌍 Live Production URLs (API v1)

Service	URL
✅ Health Check	https://dotnet-devops-pipeline.onrender.com/api/v1/health
📘 Swagger UI	https://dotnet-devops-pipeline.onrender.com/api/v1/swagger

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⚡ CI/CD Pipeline Diagram (Mermaid)

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    A[Git Push] --> B[GitHub]
    B --> C[GitHub Actions CI]
    C --> D[dotnet restore]
    D --> E[dotnet build]
    E --> F[dotnet test]
    F --> G[Docker Build]
    G --> H[Render Deploy]
    H --> I[Live Production API]

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📷 Application Screenshots

✅ Swagger UI (Production)

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https://dotnet-devops-pipeline.onrender.com/swagger

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✅ Render Live Deployment

https://dotnet-devops-pipeline.onrender.com

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🧠 DevOps Automation Flow

Push → CI → Test → Docker → Cloud → Live

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🏗️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	.NET 8 Web API
Logging	Serilog
Containers	Docker
CI/CD	GitHub Actions
Cloud	Render
Monitoring	Health Checks
Docs	Swagger

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✨ Key Features

✅ Full DevOps lifecycle automation ✅ Dockerized cloud-native API ✅ Automated build, test, and deploy ✅ Health monitoring & logging ✅ Production deployment with zero downtime triggers

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📂 Project Structure

DotnetDevopsPipeline
 ├─ DotnetDevopsPipeline.Api
 │   ├─ Controllers
 │   ├─ Program.cs
 │   ├─ Dockerfile
 │   ├─ appsettings.json
 │   └─ Properties
 ├─ .github
 │   └─ workflows
 │       └─ dotnet-ci.yml
 ├─ .gitignore
 └─ README.md

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🐳 Docker Usage (Local)

Build Image

docker build -t dotnetdevopspipeline .

Run Container

docker run -p 8080:8080 dotnetdevopspipeline

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✅ Local Access

• Swagger: http://localhost:8080/swagger
• Health: http://localhost:8080/health

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⚙️ GitHub Actions CI/CD

Defined in .github/workflows/dotnet-ci.yml

Triggered on

• Push to main
• Pull Requests

Pipeline Steps

• Restore
• Build
• Test
• Docker Image Build
• Auto Deploy to Render

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☁️ Render Cloud Deployment

Uses Docker-based deployment with real-time health checks.

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🔍 Health Check Endpoint

GET /health

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🏆 Career-Level Impact

✅ Demonstrates Production CI/CD expertise ✅ Shows real DevOps toolchain usage ✅ Proves cloud-native deployment skills

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👨‍💻 Author

CodeByPinar https://github.com/CodeByPinar

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🔮 Future Enhancements

• API Versioning
• Authentication
• Database Integration
• Metrics Monitoring (Prometheus)
• Distributed tracing

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✅ License

MIT

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📌 Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this section.
This project follows Semantic Versioning (SemVer).

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🔹 v1.1.0 – Production Stability & API Versioning

Release Date: 2025-12-09

✅ Added

• API versioning structure introduced (/api/v1)
• Versioned health endpoint: /api/v1/health
• Versioned Swagger UI access
• Production-ready routing structure using MapGroup
• Render production environment stabilization
• Improved Serilog request logging for production visibility

🔧 Fixed

• UsePathBase routing conflict resolved
• Swagger and Health endpoints properly aligned with API versioning
• Render port binding and startup stability issues fixed

🚀 Deployment

• Fully automated CI + Docker + Render deployment verified
• Live health monitoring confirmed in production

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🔹 v1.0.0 – Initial Production Release

Release Date: 2025-12-09

✅ Features

• .NET 8 Web API project initialized
• Swagger UI integrated
• Health check endpoint added (/health)
• Serilog file & console logging enabled
• Docker multi-stage build configured
• GitHub CI pipeline created and verified
• Render cloud deployment completed successfully

🎯 Status

• Production-ready baseline established

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