We evaluated multiple possible architectures and finally chose the one that was best by many parameters. We hope this post will help people setting up their own Azure clusters with decent networking. First let’s look at the available options for Kubernetes networking in Azure. Calico with BGP The first option was to use default Calico…
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Azure separates the process of CI/CD using two pipelines build pipeline(CI) and release pipeline(CD) Build Pipeline In build pipeline you care about how to build and customize your artifact the way you want. For example if you have a spring boot application in your azure repo, you should make a task to jar your application…
Read More →An alternative method for transferring data is AzCopy. AzCopy v10 is the next-generation command-lineutility for copying data to/from Microsoft Azure Blob and File storage, which offers a redesigned command-line interface and new architecture for high-performance reliable data transfers. Using AzCopy, youcan copy data between a file system and a storage account, or between storage accounts….
Read More →Microsoft Azure Announcement December 2021 learn2skills Welcome to Azure Compute Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.2.1 is now generally available Azure VMware SDDC…
Read More →Azure Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure, Users are only required to manage and maintain agent nodes. Features Include in AKS. Advanced Networking Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity and Security Management Container health logs and monitoring GPU-enabled nodes AKS Terminology Pools are groups of nodes with identical configurations.Nodes are individual virtual…
Read More →Azure Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in, to, and from Azure. Scenario level monitoring enables you to diagnose problems at an end-to-end network level view. Network diagnostic and visualization tools available with Network Watcher help you understand, diagnose, and gain insights…
Read More →Virtual network integration for Azure servicesIntegrating Azure services to an Azure virtual network enables private access to the service from virtualmachines or compute resources in the virtual network. You can integrate Azure services in your virtualnetwork with the following options:● Deploying dedicated instances of the service into a virtual network. The services can then be…
Read More →Zone-redundant storage replicates your data across three storage clusters in a region. Each cluster is physically separated from the other two, which means that each cluster is supplied by separate utilities, such as power or networking.If there’s an outage in a datacenter, you can still access your data from another availability zone in that region….
Read More →Available in Preview- Azure Virtual networks can freely resize without any downtime now with this feature existing peerings on the virtual network do not need to be deleted prior to adding or deleting an address prefix on the Azure virtual network. How to add or remove address space on peered virtual networks You can add…
Read More →Custom Themes I will explain how to perform upgrades using Helm operators Run the following command: helm install wp bitnami/wordpress You will force an update of the image of the MariaDB container. Let's first check the version of the current image: kubectl describe statefulset wp-mariadb | grep Image Getting the current image of the StatefulSet…
Read More →You will update your existing cluster to include Azure AD integration. You will do this using the Azure portal: Note: Once a cluster has been integrated with Azure AD, this functionality cannot be disabled. To start, you will need an Azure AD group. You will later give admin privileges for your AKS cluster to this…
Read More →Problem Statement: As a tenant administrator you can’t inspect KeyVault contents created by other people (“you are unauthorized to view these contents”). Solution: You can assign appropriate permission in access policies. Go to Azure portal>Key vaults>Settings>Access Policies Click “Add Access plocies” Key permissions: Select all under “Key Management Operations” and “Cryptographic Operations” Select yourself as…
Read More →App Service on Linux to host web apps natively on Linux for supported application stacks. To view the latest languages and supported versions Run az webapp list-runtimes –linux Currently supported featuresLimitationsTroubleshoot performance issuesContinuous deployment to Azure App Service Currently supported features Deployments FTP Local Git GitHub Bitbucket Languages and frameworks Node.js Java PHP Python .NET…
Read More →Immutable storage for Azure blob that enables users to store business-critical data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. Immutable storage supports two types of policies:Time-based retention Legal holdSelect from Azure PortalTime-based retention Immutable storage supports two types of policies: Time-based retention Time-based retention allows users to add policies and store data for a…
Read More →Both tools below – ProcDump and DebugDiag – work similarly: they can attach themselves as debuggers to a process, then, when the machine is on high-CPU, collect one or more memory dump(s) from that specific process. Note that the tools won’t “know” what process is consuming the CPU unless we dig deeper in the performance…
Read More →Traffic Analytics is an Azure-native solution that allows you to get insights about the Azure Virtual Network flows originated by or targeted to your applications. For example, identifying network activity hot spots, security threats or network usage patterns is made very easy by navigating over the several ready-made Traffic Analytics dashboards. This solution depends on Network Security…
Read More →Azure Monitor Application Insights is a cloud native application monitoring offering which enables you to observe failures, bottlenecks, and usage patterns to resolve incidents faster and reduce downtime. With the release of OpenCensus Python Azure Functions Extension (see official documentation and GitHub Readme), application owners and DevOps professionals can expand the reach of their distributed tracing to include…
Read More →Traffic Analytics is an Azure-native solution that allows you to get insights about the Azure Virtual Network flows originated by or targeted to your applications. For example, identifying network activity hot spots, security threats or network usage patterns is made very easy by navigating over the several ready-made Traffic Analytics dashboards. This solution depends on Network Security…
Read More →You can now use PowerShell scripts to discover, assess, and migrate your .NET web applications from IIS to Azure App Service. In addition, you have the ability to do discovery, assessment, packaging, and deployment for all sites on the server in bulk, and may choose to migrate even with identified issues to allow for iteration…
Read More →Azure VMware Solution empowers you to seamlessly extend or migrate on-premises VMware applications to Azure without the cost, effort or risk of re-architecting applications or retooling operations. The release of Canada East with the existing Canada Central provides deployment choice for customers as well as two Azure VMware Solution sites within a single data sovereign…
Read More →Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall(NGFW) capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments. With the new Azure Firewall Premium, the following new capabilities are now available: TLS Inspection: Azure Firewall Premium terminates outbound and east-west TLS connections. Inbound TLS inspection is supported in conjunction with Azure Application Gateway allowing end-to-end encryption. Azure…
Read More →With shared disks, Azure Disk Storage is the only shared block storage in the cloud that supports both Windows and Linux based clustered or distributed applications to run your most demanding enterprise applications – like clustered databases, parallel file systems, stateful containers, and machine learning applications – in the cloud, without compromising on well-known deployment…
Read More →Azure VMware Solution empowers you to seamlessly extend or migrate on-premises VMware applications to Azure without the cost, effort, or risk of re-architecting applications or retooling operations. The release of Australia Southeast with the existing Australia East provides deployment choice for customers as well as two Azure VMware Solution sites within a single data sovereign…
Read More →As of July 2021, the following updates and new features are now available in Azure Spring Cloud: Monitor apps with New Relic One (public preview). As developers move to the cloud, they want to instrument applications for application performance monitoring (APM) using familiar tools. With the integration of New Relic One in Azure Spring Cloud, Spring Boot applications can easily be monitored with New…
Read More →Microsoft Inspire – What’s new with Azure Virtual Desktop We have some announcements coming up at Microsoft Inspire for Azure Virtual Desktop. Please join our sessions listed below to learn about what’s new and read our blog post for details. New announcements to support our expanded vision for Azure Virtual Desktop to be a flexible cloud VDI…
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