Lately I have written a .net core web job and wanted to publish it via CD (continuous deployment) from Visual Studio Online. Soon I figured, Azure Web Job SDK doesn’t support (yet) .net core. The work I expected will take 10 mins took about an hour. If you are also figuring out this, this blog… Continue reading Deploying Azure web job written in .net core
Category: Azure
Zero-Secret application development with Azure Managed Service Identity
Committing the secrets along with application codes to a repository is one of the most commonly made mistakes by many developers. This can get nasty when an application is developed for Cloud deployment. You probably have read the story of checking in AWS S3 secrets to GitHub. The developer corrected the mistake in 5 mins,… Continue reading Zero-Secret application development with Azure Managed Service Identity
Secure Azure Web sites with Web Application Gateway wtih end-to-end SSL connections
The Problem In order to met higher compliance demands and often as security best practices, we want to put an Azure web site behind an Web Application Firewall (aka WAF). The WAF provides known malicious security attack vectors mitigation's defined in OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities. Azure Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer that provides WAF out of the box. However,… Continue reading Secure Azure Web sites with Web Application Gateway wtih end-to-end SSL connections
CQRS and ES on Azure Table Storage
Lately I was playing with Event Sourcing and command query responsibility segregation (aka CQRS) pattern on Azure Table storage. Thought of creating a lightweight library that facilitates writing such applications. I ended up with a Nuget package to do this. here is the GitHub Repository. A lightweight CQRS supporting library with Event Store based on… Continue reading CQRS and ES on Azure Table Storage
Azure template to provision Docker swarm mode cluster
What is a swarm?The cluster management and orchestration features embedded in the Docker Engine are built using SwarmKit. Docker engines participating in a cluster are running in swarm mode. You enable swarm mode for an engine by either initializing a swarm or joining an existing swarm. A swarm is a cluster of Docker engines, or… Continue reading Azure template to provision Docker swarm mode cluster
IAC – Using Azure RM templates
As cloud Software development heavily leverages virtualized systems and developers have started using Continuous Integration (CI), many things have started to change. The number of environment developers have to deal with has gone up significantly. Developers now release much frequently, in many cases, multiple times in a single day. All these releases has to be… Continue reading IAC – Using Azure RM templates
Production-ready mesosphere cluster on Azure with single command
Lately I have been busy exploring how a production ready mesosphere cluster can be built on top of Azure. The journey was interesting because it went through quite a few technologies that I was almost oblivious before I started. But at the same time excited and amazed by their capabilities that I feel I should… Continue reading Production-ready mesosphere cluster on Azure with single command
RabbitMQ High-availability clusters on Azure VM
Background Recently I had to look into a reliable AMQP solution (publish-subscribe queue model) in order to build a message broker for a large application. I started with the Azure service bus and RabbitMQ. It didn’t took long to understand that RabbitMQ is much more attractive over service bus because of their efficiency and cost… Continue reading RabbitMQ High-availability clusters on Azure VM
Reverse Engineering 