Azure | Application Insights | DevOps | Cloud | Monitoring — Objective Application monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing log data in order to help engineers to track the availability of your application, bugs, resource usage, etc. In this post, I will talk about Azure Application Insights an Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals. I will…

Packer | DevOps | IaaC | Cloud — What is Immutable Infrastructure? The idea behind Immutable Infrastructure takes birth from the fact that you do not change existing infrastructure in case of any update or change, but deploy completely new servers with the changes pre-installed. What is Packer? Packer is a HashiCorp cross-platform tool that can help to create identical machine images for multiple platforms…

Terraform | DevOps | GitHub | IaaC | Cloud — What is Terraform Module? Terraform Modules are the reusable blueprints of your infrastructure. By building modules you can logically break down the infrastructure components and wrap those logical parts into re-usable chunks of IaC. Basically, any set of standard Terraform configuration files in a folder is a Terraform module. You can reuse these modules…

Azure | Kubernetes | DevOps | AppArmor | Security | Docker — What is AppArmor AppArmor is a Linux Kernal Security Module which allows Sys admin to restrict programs access to certain resources defined in profiles. The security profile allows or disallows specific capabilities, such as network access or file rwx permissions etc. AppArmor can be configured for any application to reduce its potential attack…

Part 2: Istio | Canary | Python Flask | Kubernetes | DevOps — In the first article of this series, we deployed a dummy python flask-based application in the Kubernetes cluster to demonstrate Istio traffic control capabilities. We talked about Istio concepts briefly and deployed few addons for monitoring and visualization of mesh. Istio’s ability to enforce policy in communication networks enables useful…

Part 1: Istio | Microservice | Python Flask | Kubernetes | DevOps — In a cloud-native solution, the distributed nature of the services requires greater control over the flow of traffic between the services. A service mesh allows you to observe, traffic control, secure, manage and connect microservices. Istio is an implementation of a service mesh and comes with a lot of valuable…

Infrastructure as Code | Terraform | Azure | Azure DevOps — In the previous post of this series, I covered the basic standard method to deploy cloud resources using Terraform. In this, post we will discover it using Azure DevOps. What do you need to start? Access to Azure Cloud Subscription Azure DevOps Please note I assume that you possess basic…

Infrastructure as Code | Terraform | Azure — Infrastructure as Code IaC allows developers to codify infrastructure in a way that makes provisioning automated, faster, and repeatable. It’s a key component of Agile and DevOps practices such as version control, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. Terraform Introduction HashiCorp Terraform is aopen-source tool that manages Infrastructure as Code and allows you to build, change…

Using Python MSAL Library to fetch Auth Token — In this post, we will explore Microsoft’s unified identity management solution. Microsoft Identity platform helps you to manage identities and facilitate authentication and authorization of applications by supporting industry-standard protocols both in cloud or on-premises. Digital transformation has pushed tremendous growth in recent years. This growth has caused identity diversification…