How to use Open Service Broker for Azure in combination with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA) with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Deploy a hybrid Kubernetes Cluster to Azure Container Service
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 …
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Secure an Aurelia Single Page App with Azure Active Directory B2C / MSAL
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 …
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Deploy an Aurelia SPA to Azure Web App with VSTS
I've been working with Aurelia for quite a while now...well, since it has been released as an alpha version. I think it's one of the best SPA frameworks out there and I'm heavily relying on the work of Rob Eisenberg and his team when it comes to production apps as well as example apps during …
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Deploy a Web App infrastructure using ARM templates
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) …
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Getting Started with Azure Resource Manager
Modern applications that are hosted in Azure consist of many different components / services that communicate, exchange data, and between which there is a more or less dependency. Even simple applications consist of a database, a cache, an API, a web page, etc. - so many individual components that want to be managed. Azure Portal …
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Cloud Application Development
Anyone who has ever wondered how to start the "journey into the cloud" and was facing a huge mountain of question marks ("What services do I need?", "How do I design my solution so that it scales on Azure under load?" , "Which database should I use? " etc.), and which has not disappeared quickly, …
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