https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/ A blog of all things Azure, DevOps, Containers and More. 2024-10-25T03:05:50+00:00 Martin Lakov https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/ Jekyll © 2024 Martin Lakov /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2024-10-24T22:33:00+00:00 2024-10-24T22:33:00+00:00 https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/posts/azure-private-dns/ Martin Lakov

Overview DNS, DNS, DNS, It’s all about DNS. I’ve circled around this topic for a while, and it’s been a common discussion point with many of the clients I have worked with. DNS is absolutely critical in any environment and if not done correctly it can cause a heap of issues. I am going to talk through some of the options for resolving DNS specifically for private endpoints in Azure and more i...

2023-08-07T05:43:00+00:00 2023-08-07T05:43:00+00:00 https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/posts/running-azure-functions-on-azure-container-apps/ Martin Lakov

Service Overview Microsoft recently announced the ability to run Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (in preview). This is a big improvement over the current serverless option for Azure Functions as it allows us to leverage the benefits of microservices and the features of Azure Container Apps like DAPR and KEDA. Behind the scenes, KEDA is used as the event driven auto scaler for the Func...

2023-06-14T12:38:00+00:00 2023-06-14T12:38:00+00:00 https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/posts/new-azure-service-retirement-workbook-from-microsoft/ Martin Lakov

Microsoft regularly releases new features and services in Azure. This is the evergreen nature of the cloud however they also retire services which is where infrastructure lifecycle management comes into play. Some new releases never make it out of preview and some services become legacy and get retired. A good example is a lot of the Azure classic services which were introduced when Azure was c...

2023-04-11T23:47:00+00:00 2023-04-11T23:47:00+00:00 https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/posts/convert-arm-template-to-bicep-using-vs-code-extension/ Martin Lakov

Introduction Microsoft has just announced a new enhancement to their Bicep extension for Visual Studio code and I thought I would share this with the wider community. Many of us have been working with ARM templates for a long time and it is evident that Microsoft is now pushing for Bicep adoption which is leaving a lot of engineers having to refactor existing ARM template deployments to Bicep...

2023-02-26T22:17:00+00:00 2023-02-26T22:17:00+00:00 https://www.cloudaddict.co.uk/posts/adding-linting-validation-and-what-if-to-bicep-templates-in-azure-devops/ Martin Lakov

We are picking up from my last post where I walked through automating Bicep template deployments through Azure DevOps so if you haven’t caught up here is a link The pipeline we set up in the previous post ran a single job that deployed our Azure resource using Bicep. However, in a production scenario we want to run some validation checks to ensure our new code won’t breaking anything. Stages i...