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Dapr Service Invocation between an HTTP Python client and a GRPC Go server
Recently, I published several videos about Dapr on my Youtube channel. The videos cover the basics of state management, PubSub and service invocation. The Getting Started with state management and service invocation: Let’s take a closer look at service invocation with HTTP, Python and Node. Service Invocation with HTTP The services you write (here Service…
Integrate an Azure Storage Account with Active Directory
A customer with a Windows Virtual Desktop deployment needed access to several file shares for one of their applications. The integration of Azure Storage Accounts with Active Directory allows us to provide this functionality without having to deploy and maintain file services on a virtual machine. A sketch of the environment looks something like this:…
Adding SMB1 protocol support to Windows Server 2019
I realize this is not a very exciting post, especially compared to my other wonderful musing on this site, but I felt I really had to write it to share the pain! A colleague I work with needed to enable this feature on an Azure Windows Server 2019 machine to communicate with some old system…
Adding Authentication and Authorization to an Azure Static Web App
In a previous post, we created a static web app that retrieves documents from Cosmos DB via an Azure Function. The Azure Function got deployed automatically and runs off the same domain as your app. In essence, that frees you from having to setup Azure Functions separately and configuring CORS in the process. Instead of…
First Look at Azure Static Web Apps
Note: part 2 looks at the authentication and authorization part. At Build 2020, Microsoft announced Azure Static Web Apps, a new way to host static web apps on Azure. In the past, static web apps, which are just a combination of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, could be hosted in a Storage Account or a regular…
Trying Consul Connect on your local machine
In a previous post, I talked about installing Consul on Kubernetes and using some of its features. In that post, I did not look at the service mesh functionality. Before looking at that, it is beneficial to try out the service mesh features on your local machine. You can easily install Consul on your local…
Getting started with Consul on Kubernetes
Although I have heard a lot about Hashicorp’s Consul, I have not had the opportunity to work with it and get acquainted with the basics. In this post, I will share some of the basics I have learned, hopefully giving you a bit of a head start when you embark on this journey yourself. Want…
Azure SQL, Azure Active Directory and Seamless SSO: An Overview
Instead of pure lift-and-shift migrations to the cloud, we often encounter lift-shift-tinker migrations. In such a migration, you modify some of the application components to take advantage of cloud services. Often, that’s the database but it could also be your web servers (e.g. replaced by Azure Web App). When you replace SQL Server on-premises with…
Progressive Delivery on Kubernetes: what are your options?
If you have ever deployed an application to Kubernetes, even a simple one, you are probably familiar with deployments. A deployment describes the pods to run, how many of them to run and how they should be upgraded. That last point is especially important because the strategy you select has an impact on the availability…
Trying Windows Virtual Desktop
Update: Windows Virtual Desktop 2020 Spring Update brings an new fully ARM-based deployment method and portal experience. As of May 2020, these features are in public preview. Check the documentation. Links to the documentation in this article will also reflect the update. It was Sunday afternoon. I had some time. So I had this crazy…
