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  • Taking Azure Container Apps for a spin

    Taking Azure Container Apps for a spin

    At Ignite November 2021, Microsoft released Azure Container Apps as a public preview. It allows you to run containerized applications on a serverless platform, in the sense that you do not have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The underlying infrastructure is Kubernetes (AKS) as the control plane with additional software such as: Dapr: distributed… Read more

  • Kubernetes Blue-Green deployments with Argo Rollouts

    Kubernetes Blue-Green deployments with Argo Rollouts

    In this post, we will take a look at 🟦/🟩 blue-green deployments in Kubernetes. With blue-green deployments, you deploy a new version of an application or service next to the live and stable version. After manual or automatic checks, you promote the new version to become the live version. Switching between versions is simply a… Read more

  • Trying out WebAssembly on Azure Kubernetes Service

    Introduction In October 2021, Microsoft announced the public preview of AKS support for deploying WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads in Kubernetes. You can read the announcement here. In short, that means we can run another type of workload on Kubernetes, besides containers! WebAssembly is maybe best known for the ability to write code with languages… Read more

  • DNS Options for Private Azure Kubernetes Service

    DNS Options for Private Azure Kubernetes Service

    When you deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), by default the API server is publicly made available. That means it has a public IP address and an Azure-assigned name that’s resolvable by public DNS servers. To secure access, you can use authorized IP ranges. As an alternative, you can deploy a private AKS cluster. That means… Read more

  • Approving a private endpoint connection with Azure CLI

    Approving a private endpoint connection with Azure CLI

    In my previous post, I wrote about App Services with Private Link and used Azure Front Door to publish the web app. Azure Front Door Premium (in preview), can create a Private Endpoint and link it to your web app via Azure Private Link. When that happens, you need to approve the pending connection in… Read more

  • Azure App Services with Private Link

    Azure App Services with Private Link

    In one of my videos on my YouTube channel, I discuss Azure App Services with Private Link. The video describes how it works and provides an example of deploying the infrastructure with Bicep. The Bicep templates are on GitHub. If you want to jump straight to the video, here it is: In the rest of… Read more