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
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
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
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
Multi-Tenant Daemons with Microsoft Identity platform
Background I have recently speaking to a customer about the following scenario. Customer has an API that supposed to be consumed by some **trusted** daemon applications built and managed by their partners. It's not the interactive users (no signed in users via an web application) who will be using the API, rather some background process … Continue reading Multi-Tenant Daemons with Microsoft Identity platform
Secure your pipelines by frequently rotating secrets
TL; DR: This article and accompanying source codes helps you setting up an automated secret or certificate rotations for Azure service principals and Azure DevOps service connections. Jump into the technical part here. Background If you are deploying applications on Azure from Azure DevOps service connections (or GitHub actions) you are most likely using a … Continue reading Secure your pipelines by frequently rotating secrets
Bridge to Kubernetes – be confident on shipping software
Bridge to Kubernetes is a successor of Azure Dev Space. Distributed software’s are comprised of more than one services (often referred as micro-services), they depend on each other (one service invoking APIs of another service) to deliver capabilities to end users. While separations of services bring flexibility in delivering features (or bug fixes) faster, it … Continue reading Bridge to Kubernetes – be confident on shipping software
How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) provides support for the SAML 2.0 identity provider. With this capability, you can create a technical profile in Azure AD B2C to federate with SAML-based identity provider, such as ADFS. Thus, allow users to sign in with their existing enterprise identities. Microsoft has good docs on this topic, … Continue reading How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Access Control management via REST API – Azure Data Lake Gen 2
Background A while ago, I have built an web-based self-service portal that facilitated multiple teams in the organisation, setting up their Access Control (ACLs) for corresponding data lake folders. The portal application was targeting Azure Data Lake Gen 1. Recently I wanted to achieve the same but on Azure Data Lake Gen 2. At the … Continue reading Access Control management via REST API – Azure Data Lake Gen 2
Reverse Engineering 