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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Streamlining Azure Resource Management with AI-Powered LCM
Introduction The source code of the POC can be found in this GitHub repository. In the dynamic landscape of cloud computing, staying up-to-date with the latest updates and changes to Azure resources is crucial for maintaining efficiency and security. However, managing the lifecycle of Azure resources can be a daunting task, especially for large-scale deployments.… Continue reading Streamlining Azure Resource Management with AI-Powered LCM
AKS Workload identity – A Deeper look
Background Recently, I found myself delving into the intricacies of Workload Identity Federation within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) while explaining it to some friends. As I delved deeper into the topic, I realized the importance of documenting and summarizing this information for anyone else navigating the same waters - including my future self. So, let's… Continue reading AKS Workload identity – A Deeper look
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
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
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
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
Azure AD App via ARM Template Deployment Scripts
Background ARM templates offer a great way to define resources and deploy them. However, ARM templates didn’t have any support to invoke or run scripts. If we wanted to carry out some operations as part of the deployment (Azure AD app registrations, Certificate generations, copy data to/from another system etc.) we had to create pre… Continue reading Azure AD App via ARM Template Deployment Scripts
Terraforming Azure DevOps
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
Reverse Engineering 