Azure virtual networks (VNets) enable cloud engineers to build secure and scalable networks in Azure — What are virtual networks? As you look to move workloads to the cloud, it’s important to have a secure and scalable network infrastructure that can support your applications. In Azure, this is where virtual networks come in. Virtual networks (VNet for short) are the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. They…

As part of Azure Monitor, we can use Log Analytics to conduct queries on our log data, providing insights on insfrastructure and troubleshooting operational incidents. — What is Log Analytics? Azure Log Analytics is a tool as part of Azure Monitor that we can use to query data stored in the Azure Monitor Logs store. As administrators or developers, we would use Log Analytics in the Azure portal to configure input data sources (such as Container Apps, App Service, Cosmos…

Azure Container Apps manages automatic horizontal scaling through declarative scaling rules, utilizing KEDA scalers. — Azure Container Apps manages automatic horizontal scaling through declarative scaling rules. We can scale out our container apps based on a variety of different KEDA scalers. I recorded a video over the weekend covering how scaling works in Azure Container Apps, what KEDA is and how to set scaling rules…

We can now use SQL triggers in Azure Functions to listen to SQL Change Tracking! — Azure SQL triggers for Azure Functions came into public preview for C# Functions last month. When you enable Change Tracking on a table in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance or SQL Server (yes, on-prem SQL Server), you can create a function that will be triggered every time a row is…

Push docker images to GitHub Container Registry using GitHub Actions — In my job, I build a lot of samples that I share with customers to show them how things work. A lot of my customers are interested in Azure Container Apps, so I want to be able to provide them with samples with pre-built container images, without having to share…

With integration with Azure Container Apps, we can use DaprService Invocation to make calls to other container apps. — I had a bit of time last week to do some Dapr learning, so I started to read the Dapr for .NET Developers e-book that’s available on our documentation (completely free by the way!). …

Using Microsoft Defender for DevOps, we can run vulnerability scans on our Bicep code — I’ve also published this article on my personal blog here: Configure Bicep code scanning in GitHub with Microsoft Defender for DevOps | Will Velida Microsoft Defender for DevOps is a new capability in Defender for Cloud that provides visibility across multiple DevOps environments that you can use to centrally manage…

Learn how you can use Bicep to provision AKS clusters, ACR registries and role assignments to enable your AKS cluster to pull images from ACR — Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster into Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure. Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store and manage container images in a private registry, from which you can pull your images into your AKS cluster.

Azure Container Apps is a serverless container platform that we can run containerized applications without managing infrastructure or orchestrations. — Azure Container Apps is a serverless container platform that we can use to run microservices and containerized applications without having to worry about managing complex infrastructure and container orchestrations. In this video, I introduce the key concepts and features of Azure Container Apps and go through a demo on how you can create a simple Container App using Bicep.