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Accelerate Governance with Deployment Environments

I am super excited to explore and learn this new Azure capability: Azure Deployment Environment.   Azure Deployment Environments empowers development teams to quickly and easily spin-up app infrastructure with project-based templates that establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost efficiency. This on-demand access to secure environments accelerates the different stages… Continue reading Accelerate Governance with Deployment Environments

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Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 5

Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Read Part 4 here. Today I will be using the traffic-splitting capability of Azure Container Apps. Azure Container Apps implements container app versioning by creating revisions. A revision is an immutable snapshot of a container app version. Revisions in Azure Container App The… Continue reading Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 5

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Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 4

Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Last time, I wrote the backend service (JobListener) which gets triggered by the Dapr pubsub whenever an image is uploaded into the designated blob container in the storage account. It then uses Computer Vision APIs to do the image recognition. Today we will… Continue reading Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 4

.NET · Architecture · Azure Container Registry · AzureContainerApps · Bicep · Event Grid · managed-identity

Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 3

Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Last time, I created an empty Azure Container Apps Environment, some supporting components like Key vaults, Log analytics workspace, Application Insights and Computer vision. I have also created an Event Grid topic that subscribed changes in Azure Storage container and dispatches change events to a Service Bus… Continue reading Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 3

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Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 2

Part 1 of this article is here. Last time, I created an empty Azure Container Apps Environment using Bicep. I also created some required components like Key vaults, Log analytics workspace, Application Insights and Computer vision. Application Architecture Today I want to make progress on that. As I have briefly explained before, I want to… Continue reading Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 2

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Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 1

I have played with Dapr on Kubernetes (AKS to be specific) before and loved it for its ability to simplify distributed applications development with out of the box binding, service to service communications, secret abstractions, actors and observabilities. I have previously worked with LinkerD and Istio as service mesh and ran workload in production, but… Continue reading Demystifying Azure Container Apps & Dapr – Part 1