My JSON gets serialized in a string - Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is a powerful tool.

It takes care of long running tasks, retries, bunch of integrations, etc . .

It also handles JSON payloads natively. JSON flows in and out of an app.

I recently faced a bit of a problem with JSON though.

My JSON was appearing serialized within a string....

Network Policies with Calico in AKS

Calico network plugin is finally supported within Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).

There is a very good tutorial on the online documentation, so we won’t give a walkthrough here.

Instead we will highlight a couple of points about Network Policies in general and in AKS.

Online references

On top of the aforementioned AKS...

Flex Volume in AKS

I wanted to start looking at a few modules helping integrate AKS with the rest of Azure.

In a past article, we looked at Pod Identity.

This time around, we will look at Flex Volume.

Flex Volume is an integration between AKS and Key Vault. It allows keys, secrets & certificates (the...

Azure AD Pod Identity in AKS

I wanted to start looking at a few modules helping integrate AKS with the rest of Azure.

A big integration point is identity. For many reasons, we’ll want our pods to use service principal identities:

1. Access an Azure service supporting AAD-integration
   • Data Lake Store
   • Azure SQL DB
   • Azure Key...

Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps

Azure Key Vault is a great service to manage secrets, keys & certificates.

It uses RBAC to control access. Like all access control system, there is a chain of access. For instance, my user account has access to the vault: this means if my account’s credentials get leaked, the access to the...