Actions · Architecture · Azure Container Registry · azure-resource-manager-templates · AzureContainerApps · Bicep · binding · GitHub · KEDA · Logic App · Workflow

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

.NET · .net-core · AB Testing · Architecture · Automation · Azure · Azure Container Registry · azure-resource-manager-templates · AzureContainerApps · Bicep · Blue-Green Deployment · C# · CI-CD · http · HTTPS · Infrastructure As Code · ServiceMash · Test Strategy

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

.NET · Architecture · Azure · Azure Container Registry · AzureContainerApps · Bicep · CI-CD · GitHub-Actions · Infrastructure As Code · managed-identity

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

API-Management-Service · APIM · Architecture · Automation · Azure · CI-CD · Pipeline · Powershell

Continuously deliver changes to Azure API management service with Git Configuration Repository

What is API management Publishing data, insights and business capabilities via API in a unified way can be challenging at times. Azure API management (APIM) makes it simpler than ever. Businesses everywhere are looking to extend their operations as a digital platform, creating new channels, finding new customers and driving deeper engagement with existing ones.… Continue reading Continuously deliver changes to Azure API management service with Git Configuration Repository

.net-core · ASP.net · Automation · C# · Certificate · Command · docker · HTTPS · OpenSSL · ssl · TLS

OpenSSL as Service

OpenSSL is awesome! Though, requires little manual work to remember all the commands, executing them in a machine that has OpenSSL installed. In this post, I'm about to build an HTTP API over OpenSSL, with the most commonly used commands (and the possibility to extend it further - as required). This will help folks who… Continue reading OpenSSL as Service

.NET · .net-core · Automation · Azure · azure-web-app · azure-web-apps · C# · CI-CD · webjob

Deploying Azure web job written in .net core

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

.NET · Architecture · Automation · Azure · azure-resource-manager-templates · ServicePrincipal

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