Azure Azure Powershell Functions: Extending, Automating and Securing In our last post we covered the creation and testing of a powershell based Azure Function. It was able to list contents of a single storage account. But how might we extend that
Azure Azure Powershell Functions: Getting Started Recently I've had a lot of work that has involved powershell in a variety of tooling and the need to move powershell workloads into the cloud. Microsoft actually has a rather straightforward method
dapr Dapr Part 6: Workflows One feature of Dapr we've yet to explore is Azure Logic App workflow support. Let me explain a bit since I think the offering might be confusing. Microsoft open-sourced Azure Logic Apps, or
Azure Azure DNS Azure DNS is a simple hosting service Microsoft offers in Azure. While it does not have TLD registration built in, it does serve and manage namespaces pointed to it. This can be used
dapr Dapr Part 5: Observability, Telemetry and Tracing One of the features of Dapr.io we have yet to explore is the logging and performance management component. Dapr uses OpenTelemtry to forward tracing data to the tool of your choice.Source:
dapr Dapr Part 4: Service Discovery and Bindings We've covered pubsub and secrets in detail. Dapr can also provide service-to-service discovery and routing much like istio (less the encryption). Dapr's binding component allows us to route to external services for input
Azure DevOps Azure DevOps: Secrets in Files We've discussed AKV and Hashi Vault, but one simple pattern for secrets storage and decimation is to use encrypted file storage. While not as elegant, it can be more than sufficient, fast and
Azure Azure DevOps: VM Deployment Environments A topic that has come up a few times lately, in regards to YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps, is how to use Environments for non-containerized workloads. Most of to whom I speak are
AKS Containerized FORTRAN in Kubernetes While there are guides to creating FORTRAN containers to solve local builds, I felt it would be a great logical followup to try and make a containerized microservice using FORTRAN. More importantly, could
Azure Getting Started with Packer and AzDO Lately I've been in many conversations about how to use Packer, especially how to use Packer with Azure Pipelines and Cloud endpoints. There are some good Getting Started trainings with Packer and Vagrant
Azure Notifications: Email with Logic Apps Love them or hate them, email notifications are a topic nearly every project needs to solve. Having to trigger them from Azure has come up multiple times in the last week which prompted