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One of the non-straight forward aspects of implementing for applications in Kubernetes is the stateful data store. I will be showing 2 relational database patterns in Azure Kubernetes Service. Since containers are the fundamental building blocks, these are stateless by default. That is the containers can lose its data when it is terminated or fail. …
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Objectives: To migrate data from an On-premises SQL Sever to Azure SQL Database. To show a quick and summarized walk through and practical insights of this specific process. Background: I have a .NET Web app using the sample Adventure Works database all running in an on-premises dev server. Steps: Install the Data Migration Assistant Tool …
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Scenario:Building upon my previous blog post Managing Azure with Az CLI and Windows Subsystem for Linux, I want to demonstrate examples and techniques in managing a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in a bash shell using Windows Subsystem for Linux. As a mainstream Microsoft platform developer and engineer for most of my career, …
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Scenario: As a Microsoft developer and engineer, I want to use Linux and Linux tools to manage Azure resources on my Windows 10. As someone who has been a windows- based developer and IT pro for all of my career, I am starting to need to be more versatile in the tools I use to …
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The previous part 1 blog post went over fundamental concepts of ingress and ingress controller. This part 2 post will build on this concept and give a review of the App Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) First of all, what happens when you deploy AKS with its default settings? The default AKS deployment when going through …
I will share my experiences with a design and implementation of Azure Application Gateway for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. This is so that you may get some practical insight as you plan and design for using the Azure App Gateway. In this blog series, I will go over Fundamental Ingress conceptsArchitecture and deployment …
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is an orchestrating engine to run multiple containerized applications in a cluster. It is currently growing in the developer and cloud engineering community and gainer more adoption in the enterprise. Learning and working with AKS has known to have a steep learning curve. There are many parts and pieces to get …
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