thoughts on cloud native stuff
This article is about how to build a resilient architecture for distributed applications leveraging basic Domain-Driven Design and the Transactional Outbox Pattern with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus.
KrakenD is a popular Open-Source API gateway. Learn how to deploy and configure the product on your Kubernetes cluster and expose a first sample service.
This article shows how to use the Azure DevOps Terraform provider to create projects, Git repos, pipelines and variables groups that automatically integrate with an Azure KeyVault.
Add the Kubernetes Reboot Daemon to your cluster to keep your worker nodes up to date and use Azure Logic Apps to get notified whenever one of your machines will be rebooted.
Create a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform, integrate it with Azure Active Directory, add an AAD group and bind it to the cluster-admin role? Here's a Terraform sample for an out-of-the-box, AAD integrated AKS/Kubernetes cluster, ready to logon!
Introduction As you all know by now, Kubernetes is a quite popular platform for running cloud-native applications at scale. A common recommendation when doing so, is to ousource as much state as possible, because managing state in Kubernetes is not a trivial task. It can be quite hard, especially when you have a lot of …
Continue reading "Using Rook / Ceph with PVCs on Azure Kubernetes Service"
How to use Open Service Broker for Azure in combination with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Lately, I have been working a lot with Kubernetes as one (of many) solutions to run Docker containers in the cloud. Microsoft therefore offers Azure Container Service (ACS), a service to create and (partly) manage a Kubernetes cluster on Azure. You normally would deploy such a cluster via the Azure Portal or e.g. via the …
Continue reading "Deploy a hybrid Kubernetes Cluster to Azure Container Service"
If you create a modern web application with an API / REST backend and a Single Page Application (SPA) as your frontend, that you want to run in the internet, you definitely don't want to handle security / user management on your own. You will want to use a service like Auth0 or Azure Active …
Continue reading "Secure an Aurelia Single Page App with Azure Active Directory B2C / MSAL"
In my last post I discussed the basics of ARM templates and the Azure Resource Manager. In the following article, I would like to discuss a few other ways to deploy larger infrastructures, including dependencies, via an ARM template. The example infrastructure to be built here consists of the following components: Web API (App Service) …
Continue reading "Deploy a Web App infrastructure using ARM templates"
