.NET · Architecture · containerd · docker · OCI · runc · WASI · WASM

Exploring WASM, WASI with .net7 & Docker

Web Assembly aka WASM is currently gaining a lot of attention into the container community - for legit reasons! WASM is a web-optimized code format that significantly improve web application performances running on browsers. However, it is gaining more and more attention in the container world lately, because of its sandbox/isolation hence - safety, near-native… Continue reading Exploring WASM, WASI with .net7 & Docker

Azure Container Registry · AzureContainerApps · AzureDevOps · CI-CD · Cluster · GitHub-Actions · Kubernetes

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

.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

.NET · Architecture · Azure Container Registry · AzureContainerApps · Bicep · Event Grid · managed-identity

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

.NET · .net-core · C# · docker · gRPC · Inter-Process-Communication · IPC · WCF · windows-container

Inter-process communication on Windows Containers

Background Legacy monolith applications that are built to run on single beefy server can take advantage of containers to simplify the deployment model and also potentially opens possibility to re-architect piece by piece without triggering a complete rewrite. I ran into a scenario where I am considering wrap up a large monolith (with many threads… Continue reading Inter-process communication on Windows Containers

.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