Background A few months ago, I have written a Demo application that shows how to send email and SMS via Azure Communication Service. The code was written in Spring Boot (Java) and hosted on Azure Container Apps. During the demo, I have used Connection strings of Azure Communication Service which is not ideal for production… Continue reading Azure Communication Service with Managed Identity
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Infusing Azure Open AI into a Copilot for Azure DevOps
I have been learning Azure Open AI recently and thought of building a Copilot for Azure DevOps as a proof-of-concept. I have used the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as described in this article. It was a fun exercise to build it and learn quite a bit about Generative AI models, embedding etc. The video shows a… Continue reading Infusing Azure Open AI into a Copilot for Azure DevOps
Email and SMS with Azure Communication Service: Step-by-Step
Introduction Azure Communication Service is a powerful cloud-based platform offered by Microsoft that enables developers to integrate real-time communication features like SMS, voice, and email into their applications. With Azure Communication Service, developers can easily send emails and SMS to end users in a unified and seamless way, reducing the complexity of managing multiple communication… Continue reading Email and SMS with Azure Communication Service: Step-by-Step
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
Azure DevOps Container agents without PAT
Azure DevOps now supports Service principals and Managed identities for authentication. This is currently (at the time of writing) in Public Preview. This is quite an interesting feature and addresses many concerns related to personal access tokens (PATs). I have a self-hosted container agent runs on Docker which needs PAT to spin up. With the new development… Continue reading Azure DevOps Container agents without PAT
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)
Azure DevOps security as Code
Accompanied source code can be found here. A while ago, I have written an application that could simplify managing Azure DevOps security. The idea was that one could define bunch of YAML file that describes numerous security aspect for an Azure DevOps project (for example, security for teams, build and release folders, repositories etc.) and… Continue reading Azure DevOps security as Code
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
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
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
Reverse Engineering 