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Self-Hosted Azure DevOps pool on Azure Container Apps

A while ago, I have worked with few of our customers, helping to build elastic self-hosted pool for their Azure DevOps pipeline agents based on Azure Kubernetes Service. You can read all about that journey here - where I have created a Kubernetes Controller that observes the Job queue of Azure DevOps for incoming pipeline… Continue reading Self-Hosted Azure DevOps pool on Azure Container Apps

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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

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Add Private Link to an existing Azure storage account

Recently I needed to help somebody to use private link for an existing Azure Storage account. I came up with a Bicep template that helped them achieve the goal. I thought, let's just the share the code, in case somebody (or maybe even my future self) would need that for inspiration. Bicep templates I have… Continue reading Add Private Link to an existing Azure storage account

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Short Update on: Elastic self-hosted pool for Azure DevOps (on Kubernetes)

Introduction Few months before, I have written a Kubernetes .net controller that uses Azure Kubernetes Service as a platform to host Azure pipeline agents. It allows elastic scale-out model by continuously watching the job queue in Azure DevOps. You can read about it here. I have received quite a few messages from others who are… Continue reading Short Update on: Elastic self-hosted pool for Azure DevOps (on Kubernetes)

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Folder structure for Azure DevOps repositories

Recently I was helping an enterprise where they have large number of repositories in Azure DevOps projects and wanted to have a folder hierarchies to ease the navigation. Azure pipelines have folder structures but there is no feature at this point to organize repositories into folders. There is a open feature request about it already.… Continue reading Folder structure for Azure DevOps repositories