Background Multi-Stage Azure pipelines enables writing the build (continuous integration) and deploy (continuous delivery) in Pipeline-as-Code (YAML) that gets stored into a version control (Git repository). However, deploying in multiple environments (test, acceptance, production etc.) needs approvals/control gates. Often different stakeholders (product owners/Operations folks) are involved into that process of approvals. In addition to that,… Continue reading Azure DevOps Multi-Stage pipelines for Enterprise AKS scenarios
Month: April 2020
Azure AD Pod Identity – password-less app-containers in AKS
Background I like Azure Managed Identity since its advent. The concept behind Managed Identity is clever, and it adds observable value to any DevOps team. All concerns with password configurations in multiple places, life cycle management of secrets, certificates, and rotation policies suddenly irrelevant (OK, most of the cases).Leveraging managed identity for application hosted in… Continue reading Azure AD Pod Identity – password-less app-containers in AKS
Azure AD App via ARM Template Deployment Scripts
Background ARM templates offer a great way to define resources and deploy them. However, ARM templates didn’t have any support to invoke or run scripts. If we wanted to carry out some operations as part of the deployment (Azure AD app registrations, Certificate generations, copy data to/from another system etc.) we had to create pre… Continue reading Azure AD App via ARM Template Deployment Scripts
Reverse Engineering 