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  • Azure Application Gateway and Cloudflare

    Azure Application Gateway and Cloudflare

    I often work with customers that build web applications on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or Digital Ocean. The web application is usually built by a third party that specializes in e-Commerce, logistics or industrial applications in a wide range of industries. More often than not, these applications use CloudFlare for DNS, caching, and security. Read more

  • HashiCorp Waypoint Image Tagging

    HashiCorp Waypoint Image Tagging

    Recently (October, 2020) I posted an introduction to HashiCorp Waypoint on my YouTube channel. It shows how to build, push, deploy and release applications to Kubernetes with a single waypoint up command. If you want to check out that video first, see below ⬇⬇⬇ After watching that video, it should be clear that you drive Read more

  • Azure Private Link and DNS

    When you are just starting out with Azure Private Link, it can be hard figuring out how name resolution works and how DNS has to be configured. In this post, we will take a look at some of the internals and try to clear up some of the confusion. If you end up even more Read more

  • How to delete an stubborn Azure Virtual Hub

    How to delete an stubborn Azure Virtual Hub

    A while ago, I created an Azure Virtual WAN (Standard) and added a virtual hub. For some reason, the virtual hub ended up in the state below: I tried to reset the router and virtual hub but to no avail. Next, I tried to delete the hub. In the portal, this resulted in a validating Read more

  • From MQTT to InfluxDB with Dapr

    From MQTT to InfluxDB with Dapr

    In a previous post, we looked at using the Dapr InfluxDB component to write data to InfluxDB Cloud. In this post, we will take a look at reading data from an MQTT topic and storing it in InfluxDB. We will use Dapr 0.10, which includes both components. To get up to speed with Dapr, please Read more

  • Using the Dapr InfluxDB component

    Using the Dapr InfluxDB component

    A while ago, I created a component that can write to InfluxDB 2.0 from Dapr. This component is now included in the 0.10 release. In this post, we will briefly look at how you can use it. If you do not know what Dapr is, take a look at https://dapr.io. I also have some videos Read more