You can now restore your Azure VMs to another subscription within the same tenant of the subscription where source VM is present, provided you have the relevant permissions to restore in that secondary subscription. By default, restore happens in the same subscription where the source virtual machine is present. This feature is only allowed if…
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Using private endpoints, Azure Private Link enables you to securely connect Azure PaaS services to your virtual network. You only need to set up one endpoint per resource for several services. As a result, you may use Azure Arc to connect your on-premises or multi-cloud servers and send all traffic through a site-to-site VPN connection…
Read More →The geo-redundant High Availability scenarios that can be enabled using Azure Standard Load Balancing include: Your cross-region load balancer’s frontend IP setup is static and advertised in the majority of Azure regions. A list of participating regions There are limitations: A cross-region (global) load balancer can only be deployed to a home region. Make sure…
Read More →The cluster nodes are deployed into an Azure Virtual Network (VNet) subnet when using Azure CNI Overlay, but IP addresses for pods are obtained from a private CIDR that is logically separate from the VNet hosting the cluster nodes. The Overlay network is used for pod and node traffic inside the cluster, while Network Address…
Read More →You must establish a connection to the private AKS cluster either through the cluster virtual network, a peer network, or a configured private endpoint in order to access the cluster. Required prerequisites Run a single command with command invoke As an example: If you want to run a command on your cluster, run az aks…
Read More →For the #Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible server, data encryption with customer-managed passwords is configured at the server level. The data encryption key for the service is encrypted for a specific server using a customer-managed secret known as the key encryption key (KEK). (DEK). An encrypted key called the KEK is kept in a customer-owned…
Read More →A supported Windows Remote Desktop client and session host can establish a direct UDP-based connection by using the RDP Shortpath functionality of Azure Virtual Desktop. To activate RDP Shortpath, you must first fulfill the requirements. For your situation, choose one of the tabs below. Prerequisites Public Networks scenario If networks and firewalls permit the traffic…
Read More →Developers may quickly create and deploy microservices and containerized apps with Azure Container Apps. Without having to deal with Kubernetes’ complexity, developers can take advantage of the highly optimized developer productivity features of Azure Container Apps, while operators can offer developers a platform that is extremely productive while still maintaining ultimate control over the Kubernetes…
Read More →If you want to resize an existing node pool, called nodepool01, from SKU size Standard_DS3_v2 to Standard_DS4_v2. To complete this task, you’ll need to create a new node pool using Standard_DS4_v2, move workloads from nodepool01 to the new node pool, and remove nodepool01. In this example, call this new node pool testnodepool. View Existing nodes in AKS: Create a new…
Read More →You can add a node pool to your AKS cluster with CVM using the generally available confidential VM sizes (DCav5/ECav5). Confidential VMs with AMD SEV-SNP support introduces a new set of security features, including full VM memory encryption, to protect data in use. These features enable CVM-enabled node pools to migrate highly sensitive container workloads…
Read More →#Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes scalable and reliable microservices and containers easy to package, deploy, and manage. A Service Fabric cluster is a network-connected collection of virtual machines where you can deploy and manage your microservices. We will explain and Required pre-requisites Create client certificate using Azure Key Vault Create…
Read More →Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes scalable and reliable microservices and containers easy to package, deploy, and manage. A Service Fabric cluster is a network-connected collection of virtual machines where you can deploy and manage your microservices. We will explain and Required pre-requisites Create client certificate using Azure Key Vault Create…
Read More →Azure Container Apps enables you to connect to cloud services in just a few steps by using Service Connector. Service Connector manages network configuration and connection information between different services. The requirements before creating Service Connector Container Apps that are deployed to a region that is supported by a service connector, Service Connector region supported…
Read More →Soft delete policies are available in Azure Container Registry (ACR) to recover accidentally deleted artifacts. The feature is available to all service tiers (SKUs) The Soft delete policy can be enable/disable at your discretion. When you enable the soft delete policy, ACR treats deleted artifacts as soft deleted artifacts with a specified retention period. As…
Read More →Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a local environment Docker Container that encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine, it doesn’t require provisioning Azure services or incurring any cost. Prerequisites The host operating system must be either: Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Version 10.0.17763.2928 or newer Windows 11 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM minimum;…
Read More →Container Apps offer integrated secret management that you can use to store your secrets. You can use the secrets for storing connection strings for KEDA-based scale triggers or pass them as environment variables to the containers you deploy. Never store the secret value in the repository. Store the secrets as GitHub secrets, HashiCorp Vault, or Azure Key…
Read More →Microsoft Dev Box supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows. Developers can target any development workload that can be built from Windows including desktop, mobile, IoT, and web applications. Microsoft Dev Box even supports building cross-platform apps thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android. Remote access gives…
Read More →Azure Container Apps allows you to bind one or more custom domains. Every domain name must be associated with a domain certificate. Certificates are applied to the container app environment and are bound to individual container apps. You must have role-based access to the environment to add certificates. SNI domain certificates are required. Ingress must be…
Read More →Zone redundancy must be enabled when creating a container app environment. Your environment must contain a virtual network (VNet) with an infrastructure subnet. To properly distribute replicas, you must configure the minimum and a maximum number of app replicas to a value divisible by 3. The minimum number of replicas should be 3 or more….
Read More →There are instances where we need a specific set of libraries to generate our build. In the earlier approaches of VMs, it used to be creating a dedicated VM for our build pipeline and installing all the required libraries, and making sure our build will run inside that VM. This however will result in the…
Read More →Gen2 migrate using the Azure portal, follow the below steps: Step 1: Assess readiness Verify RBAC role assignments Migrate Azure Data Lake Analytics workloads (if any) Step 2: Create a storage account with Gen2 capabilities Step 3: Migrate data using the Azure portal Step 4: Migrate workloads and applications Step 1: Verify RBAC role assignments For Gen2, ensure that…
Read More →An app registration with the Microsoft identity platform can be generated automatically by the Container Apps Authentication feature. A registration that you or a directory administrator generates independently may also be used. Below is the two options: Create a new app registration automatically Use an existing registration created separately Configure your container app to use…
Read More →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…
Read More →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….
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