There are many options for developers to build and deploy cloud native and containerized applications on Microsoft AZURE. This post outlines why cloud native is important for organizations and describe the options like AZURE Container Apps and AZURE Kubernetes Service. What is Cloud-Native for Application Development? CNCF cloud native computing foundation envisions cloud-native applications to...
logging best practices for Microservices
Logging and tracing in microservice applications can be challenging and complicated if each microservice generates its own logging. Determining the application execution process flow and event co-relation can be a laborious task when microservice handling concurrent requests. Unified and Centralized logging ensures the deployed service remain reliable and resilient. This post outlines the...
Docker containers deep dive
This post outlines basic overview on Docker containers , what benefits does it brings in using in your environment and what options we have for deploying them to Azure. What is Docker? Docker is self-service entity that can run on cloud or on-premise that can be used to host and run your applications. Docker basically contains two concepts. 1. Docker Images It simply a file, where you package...
Analyzing root cause live site issues using Azure Portal
Quickly determining the root-cause of live site issue(s) that hosted in AZURE is important. The standard alerts that you setup in monitoring system might help you in alerting the problem and wouldn’t always help you in finding immediately the root-cause of the failure. Azure Portal introduced a new feature called “Application Change Analysis” under AppService. What is...
Connecting On-Premises Networks with AZURE Virtual Networks
This post outlines the options that exist for connecting your on-premise network to AZURE. Following are the three options, This post explains configuration steps that required for setting up Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network. Site-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkPoint-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkExpress Route Why do we need to extend On-Premise network? Reason 1, If Your organization...
AZURE Multi Factor Authentication – deep dive
Usernames and Passwords are no longer strong enough to protect sensitive information. This post outlines different ways you can protect on-premises and cloud based applications using Microsoft Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). It also explains deployment, configuration options in-depth, API interaction for developers to integrate MFA with existing systems. Additional security never should be a...
Building a Secure ASP.NET Core Web API
This post outlines the steps that require to secure ASP.NET Core 3.0(preview) Web API using AZURE AD. Web API uses Azure AD as identity provider which implements the OAuth2 standards. In this case AZURE AD grants the tokens to applications. Don’t get confused with OpenIDConnect and OAuth2. OpenIDConnect protocol implements OAuth2 standards. OpenID is not just for APIs, it can be used for...
AZURE Search Service overview – Part 2
This post explains filtering and scoring Search Service Results. Part 1 post on azure search service can be read here.Filters uses OData expression for searching the documents. The sample filter using postman as follows Filtering results The following ODATA filter operators that you can use filtering data in Search Service eq , ne, gt, lt, ge, le – for comparison...
Azure Search Service Overview – Part1
This post explains high-level overview of AZURE search service and its key features. Part1 includes creating a search service in Azure portal, building search indexes, uploading documents and retrieving using AZURE REST API. Azure search service REST API can be consumed by web apps and cross-platform mobile apps for showing compelling search results. Why AZURE Search Service? Azure Search service...
Microsoft Azure Storage options overview
This post outlines the available storage options in Azure portal , creating blob data and accessing it through Azure storage explorer or using C# code. The code discussed in this post can be downloaded from here Microsoft offers following storage options Creating a Storage account in AZURE portal Login to Azure Portal to create a new storage account Storage account name – The name must be...