sharpliner VS certify

I didn't appreciate developing Azure Pipelines in YAML so I've created a library that lets you use C# instead.

Aside the apparent advantages of the strong typed environment, I was able to bake in many more features that make your life easier. Code reuse is also super easy.

https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

I use a library called Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# instead of YAML. It has features around sourcing scripts that you might appreciate - it can take scripts from embedded resources and inline them in the YAML which gives you best of the both worlds:

Second, you might be into this: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

For some of the problems you mention (variable contexts), there are some things that can be done (e.g. https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/125).

In case you're just starting with YAML pipelines and you are using C# (which it seems you do), you can have a look at Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# for pipelines. Sharpliner contains some useful shortcuts/macros such as If.IsPullRequest or If.IsBranch("main"), potentially If.And(IsPullRequest, IsBranch("main")) which makes this more readable and easy to use.

I did sort of explore this possibility here: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/7

Option 2+: If your public DNS is hosted by a provider that has Win-ACME or Certify the Web support, use Let's Encrypt and automate the whole thing.

I use certify the web for the rd gateway

For Exchange and Remote Desktop Service we are using Certify The Web with Lets Encrypt. Works really well.

Certify the Web: https://certifytheweb.com/

https://certifytheweb.com Felt like a complete bait-and-switch to me.

If you're managing Windows Servers and need certificates on them, ditch what you're doing and get this: https://certifytheweb.com

It's worth doing! A few projects I've done:

I once needed a database of EV charging locations, but at the time(2011) there were no open databases, so I built https://openchargemap.org, that now serves millions of API queries per month for other apps and services

For another project, I recently wanted to control my guitar amp (a Positive Grid Spark) from my computer instead of using a mobile app, so I built https://soundshed.com which is both a bluetooth web app and an electron app you can install. It now has a few thousand users :)

And finally, another time I had some SSL certificates I needed to manage for another project (for the above mentioned https://openchargemap.org), so I built a GUI to manage and renew certificates on Windows. It's now a commercial app with hundreds of thousands of users and it's my full time job: https://certifytheweb.com

So yeah, worth doing!