Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jdXyzrRbE&ab_channel=MoimHossain Designing cloud native application architecture that is resilient requires a careful consideration of many aspects. Availability metrics and Recovery metrics could ease the design process. Microsoft has some decent guidance that describes the recommendations for defining availability and recovery target metrics for critical workloads and flows. Reliability targets are derived through workshop exercises… Continue reading AI Powered SLA Calculator from Architecture Diagram
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Creating Custom Widget for Managing Client Secrets in APIM Developer Portal
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, secure and efficient management of client credentials is paramount. Azure API Management (APIM) provides a robust platform for managing APIs, enabling organizations to expose and protect their services. Integrating Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) with the APIM Developer Portal allows API consumers to sign in and manage… Continue reading Creating Custom Widget for Managing Client Secrets in APIM Developer Portal
End-to-End Security: Function, Azure SQL, and API Management
Introduction In the dynamic realm of today's digital environment, safeguarding your applications and data holds utmost importance. This blog post is designed to lead you through the steps of establishing comprehensive security measures for an Azure Function App, Azure SQL database, and API Management. Our approach involves leveraging Azure Virtual Network (VNet) for robust network… Continue reading End-to-End Security: Function, Azure SQL, and API Management
Orion-Guardian: Azure DevOps Security Management at Scale
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, ensuring the security and autonomy of your projects is paramount. Azure DevOps has become a cornerstone for many development teams, providing a robust set of tools for collaboration and project management. However, managing security at scale can be a daunting task. Enter Orion Guardian – a game-changing… Continue reading Orion-Guardian: Azure DevOps Security Management at Scale
Secure API with API Management, network integrated Container Apps
Introduction In today's digital landscape, APIs play a crucial role in connecting applications and enabling seamless interactions. However, with the increasing importance of APIs, ensuring their security becomes paramount. In this blog post, we'll explore how to create a secure API using .net and hosted on Azure Container Apps, expose them via Azure API Management… Continue reading Secure API with API Management, network integrated Container Apps
GitOps for AKS with Azure Blob Storage (Flux v2)
GitOps is a modern way of managing infrastructure and applications using Git as a single source of truth. Flux v2 is a Kubernetes-native GitOps toolkit that automates the deployment and lifecycle management of applications in Kubernetes clusters. In this blog post, we will show you how to use GitOps with Flux v2 on Azure Kubernetes… Continue reading GitOps for AKS with Azure Blob Storage (Flux v2)
Exploring WASM, WASI with .net7 & Docker
Web Assembly aka WASM is currently gaining a lot of attention into the container community - for legit reasons! WASM is a web-optimized code format that significantly improve web application performances running on browsers. However, it is gaining more and more attention in the container world lately, because of its sandbox/isolation hence - safety, near-native… Continue reading Exploring WASM, WASI with .net7 & Docker
Self-Hosted GitHub runner on Azure Container Apps
Last week I have shown how to run Azure DevOps self-hosted agents on Azure Container Apps. Using KEDA with its built-in Azure Pipeline scaler it was relatively straightforward to spin up new replicas in Container Apps. You can read all about that process here. However, today I wanted to achieve the same for GitHub self-hosted… Continue reading Self-Hosted GitHub runner on Azure Container Apps
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
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
Reverse Engineering 