We looked at Azure Container Instances. It allows us to launch a container without a cluster and without a VM. It is ideal for bursting scenarios. In this article we’ll look at another scenario for container instances: automation. The limits of ARM Templates A great tool for automation in Azure is ARM Template. ARM Templates … More Using Azure Container Instances to complete automation
Azure Event Hubs is a data streaming platform as a Service. It is an ingestion service. We’ve looked at Event Hubs as the ingestion end of Azure Stream Analytics in two recent articles (here & here). Here we look at client side performance of different techniques and scenarios. For instance, we’ll consider both AMQP & … More Event Hubs ingestion performance and throughput
In our last article, we set out to build a resilient architecture around streaming events. In this article, we are going to build the solution. We are going to use an ARM template which automates deployment. We will also go through the configuration of different services. The goal of the architecture was to allow a … More Implementing & Automating Azure Stream Analytics Pipeline
We came upon an interesting challenge recently. Let’s have a stream of events pouring in. The source is unimportant. Hundreds, peeking at thousands, of events per second. We need to update a table in Azure SQL with a summary of the events. Let’s just assume the events are about widgets. So each event contain a … More Taming the fire hose: Azure Stream Analytics
In Part 1, we discussed how, by default, replica sets in AKS aren’t highly available. In this article, we conclude the discussion. We propose an approach to deploy highly available replica sets. The objective of this article isn’t to propose a novel way to deploy replica sets in AKS. We see it as an opportunity … More More reliable Replica Sets in AKS – Part 2
Availability is a core architecture attribute often sought after. We’ve taken a look at Azure Managed Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) here. In this article (part 1), we’re going to experiment and prove that replica set aren’t “highly available” by default. In part 2 , we’re going to look at how to architect replica sets in Azure … More More reliable Replica Sets in AKS – Part 1
We’ve recently looked at Azure AKS (Kubernetes Cluster Managed Services). We’ve looked at how to create a Kubernetes Cluster with 3 lines of Azure CLI. With this we are able to interact with the cluster & deploy containers. There is a bit of “auto magic” happening in there. In this article we will focus on … More Understanding identities in Azure AKS / Kubernetes
