If you have done any work with Azure, you have probably come across terms such as Azure Private Link Service (PLS) and Private Endpoints (PEs). To quickly illustrate what Azure PLS is, let’s look at a diagram from the Microsoft documentation for Azure SQL database: Above, Azure SQL Database uses Azure Private Link Service (PLS) to provide connectivity to the… READ MORE
Interacting with CosmosDB from a serverless application can be achieved with very few lines of code using C#. Pre-requisites: A CosmosDB resource An Azure Functions resource An input binding (the CosmosDB resource) is required for read operations, while an output binding (the CosmosDB resource) is needed for the write operations. For each operation, I share the specific function.json required. Considerations: In each code there is a model (class) of… READ MORE
Since October 2021, you are able to use a registry for your Bicep templates. This makes working on a larger scale a lot more approachable and can really help to create standards for your company. In this post, I want to focus on a specific part of registries: how do you use them in your… READ MORE
This post will be the first in a series that I’ve been thinking about putting together for a while now. The series is designed to bring together a number of concepts that can be used to manage your Azure tenants in a well regulated, controlled and consistent manner. I am writing this series from the… READ MORE
This chapter will review the importance of having a hybrid cloud strategy to allow organisations to adopt cloud services and hybrid solutions. It will also explore the various IAM solutions from AWS, Azure and GCP, which allow organisation to have a central directory service so that they can keep a single identity for each end… READ MORE
Recently, Microsoft announced a new general-purpose serverless container platform: Azure Container Apps. Container Apps is a fully managed platform for microservice applications that runs on top of Kubernetes and open-source technologies like KEDA, Envoy, and Dapr. Container Apps are designed to abstract infrastructure management with flexible serverless containers. Developers can run containers at scale without the burden… READ MORE
In my last post, we looked at how you can configure your Azure DevOps project and Power Platform environment to create a connection between the two, allowing you to take advantage of development best practices through using Azure Pipelines. In this post, we’re going to look at a simple pipeline that you can create to… READ MORE
The intention of this post is to explain how to deploy a Linux Container Workload at Azure Kubernetes Service 1. Introduction This post explains how to deploy a Linux Container Workload at the Azure Kubernetes Service. The corresponding Container Image is stored and managed by an Azure Container Registry. The deployment will be conducted by adding the dedicated YAML code. This… READ MORE
1. Introduction The usage of Azure resources, as the Azure Kubernetes Service or the Azure Container Registry, etc. enable a transition or an extension of the workbench to the Azure cloud. Therefore it would be great if you can provision such resources in the Azure Portal and it would be even more great if you could do that in an automated way. An option… READ MORE
Learn how to use Azure RBAC to connect to Cosmos DB and increase the security of your application by using Azure Managed Identities. Afew months ago, the Azure Cosmos DB team released a new feature that enables developers to use Azure principals (AAD users, service principals etc.) and Azure RBAC to connect to the database… READ MORE
