Observability Unleashed: OpenTelemetry in Azure Functions with Go

July 25, 2025September 12, 2025 Moim Hossain2 Comments

In the evolving landscape of serverless computing, observability has become paramount for building reliable, scalable applications. This article explores how to implement OpenTelemetry (OTel) in Azure Functions using the new Flex Consumption plan with Go custom handlers, providing comprehensive telemetry data through Azure Monitor's Data Collection Endpoint (DCE) and Data Collection Rule (DCR). What is… Continue reading Observability Unleashed: OpenTelemetry in Azure Functions with Go

API-Management · API-Management-Service · APIM · Architecture · AzureDevOps · AzureFunctions · Blue-Green Deployment · Go · Infrastructure As Code

Blue-Green and Canary Releases with Zero-Downtime for Azure Functions Flex Consumption with APIM

July 17, 2025July 18, 2025 Moim HossainLeave a comment

This solution demonstrates the power of combining multiple Azure services to create sophisticated deployment patterns. As Azure Functions Flex Consumption matures, this approach provides a solid foundation that can be easily adapted when native deployment slots become available. The Challenge: Deployment Slots Without Slots Azure Functions on the Consumption plan has long provided deployment slots,… Continue reading Blue-Green and Canary Releases with Zero-Downtime for Azure Functions Flex Consumption with APIM

.net-core · Cluster · compliance · docker · Go · Infrastructure As Code · Kubernetes · SQL-Container

Azure AD Pod Identity – password-less app-containers in AKS

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Moim Hossain2 Comments

Background I like Azure Managed Identity since its advent. The concept behind Managed Identity is clever, and it adds observable value to any DevOps team. All concerns with password configurations in multiple places, life cycle management of secrets, certificates, and rotation policies suddenly irrelevant (OK, most of the cases).Leveraging managed identity for application hosted in… Continue reading Azure AD Pod Identity – password-less app-containers in AKS

Automation · CI-CD · Command · docker · Go · Infrastructure As Code · terraform

Terraforming Azure DevOps

October 7, 2019October 8, 2019 Moim Hossain1 Comment

Background In many organizations, specially in large enterprises there’s a need to automate Azure DevOps projects and Teams members. Manually managing large number of Azure DevOps projects, Teams for these projects and users to the teams, on-boarding and off-boarding team members are not trivial. Besides managing the users sometimes, we just need to have an… Continue reading Terraforming Azure DevOps