AKS Gen2 VMs Preview
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by Kasun Rajapakse
3y ago
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS0 was been there for a long time. AKS is the managed Kubernetes offering from Azure to host containerized applications. You can learn more about AKS from here. Now Azure supports running Generation 2 VMs. Therefore we can take advantage of using more secure and improved performance VMs for AKS clusters. AKS team has enabled the preview of AKS support for Gen 2 VMs. This feature is still on preview and not recommended for production usage. Now lets see how we can use generation 2 VMs for AKS. First we need make sure the aks-preview CLI option is installed. Then enab ..read more
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First Look at Azure Backup Center
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by Kasun Rajapakse
3y ago
Azure Backup is a managed service that enables the customers to backup their critical workloads. As it’s a native manage service customers don’t need to provide any additional tools for backup the workloads. Learn more about Azure Backup from here. Figure 1 – Microsoft Docs What can Azure Backup service can backup? On-premises Azure VMs Azure Files shares SQL Server in Azure VMs SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers (preview) Azure Backup Center Most enterprises use multiple Azure Backup valets to manage different workload types. For example, to backup SQL S ..read more
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Import existing resources as Terraform using Terraformer
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by Kasun Rajapakse
3y ago
Introduction to IaC Infrastructure as a code (IaC) is the management and deployment of the cloud resources such as (networks, virtual machines, load balances, etc) in a descriptive model, we can treat IaC as DevOps practices such as versioning the source code. IaC evolved to solve the problem of environmental drift. Without IaC development teams has to maintain a separate environment for each environment. With time this may change the configurations of the environments. To avoid such scenarios we can use IaC check this link for more about IaC. Terraformer Terraformar is an open-source tool use ..read more
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What’s New in Azure Kubernetes Service
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by Kasun Rajapakse
3y ago
Azure Kubernetes services has introduce new features to ease the management of the clusters from portal. following are few feature I noticed that added newly. Kubernetes Resource Management from the Portal If you navigate the AKS service (/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters) we can find the section as Kubernetes Resources, in this section at the time writing this support for managing Namespaces, Workloads (Deployments, Pods, ReplicaSets, and DaemonSets) and Services & Ingress. Those are still in preview state and this helps administrators to easily navigate and troubleshoot the wor ..read more
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GitHub Action – Deploy Applications to AKS
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
GitHub action allows developers and DevOps engineers to automate the software development workflows from the same code store. We can write individual tasks (actions) to create custom workflows. Workflows are custom automated procedures we can set up in the repository to build, test, packaged, released, and deployed. With the use of GitHub action, we can build a Continues Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) from directly to different cloud environments. Those workflows run in Linux, Windows, macOS GitHub hosted machines. From this post, I’ll demonstrate how to build an flask applica ..read more
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Azure Container Registry Image Scanning
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
Azure Container Registry (ACR) is a manged, private container registry provided by Azure for storing Docker and Kubernetes images. This registry-based on the open-source Docker Registry 2.0 Image scanning is important for any Docker registry. This helps developers and administrates to visible the vulnerabilities affecting the images and they can take action and remediate those. To use ACR image scanning the subscription has to enable the Azure Security Center’s standard tier and add the container registry bundle. This feature brings deeper visibility into the vulnerabilities effecting the cont ..read more
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Use of ACR Task for Container Image Build
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
In the era of modern application development, developers use containers to develop, build, and deploy applications to the cloud. Most modern application takes the approach of microservices to distribute the monolithic application into different services. So as a task of development or release of application developers need to create a container image. This image contains the applications binary, dependencies, and etc. So Azure Container Registry offers a solution to build the container image using ACR tasks. From this walkthrough, I’ll show how to use ACR tasks to create an Image. So this imag ..read more
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Query Azure Resources at scale using Azure Resource Graph
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
Azure resource graph is a service designed by Azure to extend the capability of the management of Azure resources. This provides efficiency and performance for querying and exploring resources in multiple subscriptions on a large scale. This help organization IT teams to implement governance on a large scale over them organization-wide. Azure Resource Graph provide the following capabilities. Enable IT teams, to query resources across multiple subscriptions at once Ability to use complex queries for filtering, grouping, and sorting resources. Help to apply policies to the vast amount of cloud ..read more
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Azure AD Privileged Identity Manager for Azure RBAC
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
Azure AD Privileged Identity Manager (PIM) is a security service that helps organizations manage, monitor and control access to sensitive, important resources in Azure, Azure AD, Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365 and Intune. Why Organizations use Azure AD PIM? It’s important for an organization to limit the people who can access organizations’ resources to secure important data. This will reduce the chance of conducting malicious actions by gain access to resources. However, users still need to perform administrative tasks in Azure, Office 365 and etc. With Azure AD PIM we can overs ..read more
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Identify Azure VMs without Antimalware Extension Installed
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by Kasun Rajapakse
4y ago
Securing cloud infrastructure and services plays a vital role in architecting a solution. As a solution designer or architect, it is an important task to take account of all the possible security measurements need for the solution. It can be from infrastructure to application and database When security plays a major role in cloud security, it uses a concept called Shared Security Responsibility. In Shared Security Responsibility as a customer, we are bind to part of responsibilities as well as cloud service providers who have the responsibility of securing the resources. Customer responsibilit ..read more
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