Kubernetes Services in Azure AKS - Network integration

Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service in Azure. Not only does it provides a managed cluster, it also integrates with Azure services.

In this article we’ll explain the integration between Kubernetes’ services and Azure Networking. We won’t give code sample though as we’ll keep that for a future article.

RBAC and role assignment using ARM Templates

Azure supports Role Based Access Control (RBAC) as an access control paradigm.

It allows to map a user (or a group of users) to a role within a given scope (resource, resource group, subscription or management group).

For instance, we could map my user identity to a Virtual...

Docker multi-stage build

I recently came across a really nice feature of Docker Build and wanted to share it.

Building a Docker Image often requires to build binaries.  In my case I needed to build a .NET core application.  You might need to build a Java App or any other types of...

Cosmos DB Stored Procedures - handling continuation

I’ve recently did some work involving Stored Procedures in Cosmos DB.

There are a few techniques to learn when our stored procedures handle large data sets.  It is all about continuation.

In this article, we’ll look at how to build a robust and scalable stored procedure.

We’ll start with...

Cosmos DB Configuration Management

I often found the need to automate Cosmos DB deployments.

I like to have users run an ARM template and be ready to go.  Automation is key component to repeatability.  It enables automated testing and increase agility in many other ways.

ARM Templates don’t go beyond a database account.