Recently, I was involved in a project where we had requirements. A report needed to be built based on data from several sources, including Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL. This report was required to be stored in Azure, and data was subject to a retention policy where it would be unable to be deleted. For this use case, we decided to use Azure Data Factory to read the data, transform the data, and load the data into a CSV […]
Automating the build and deployment of an Angular application in the Azure DevOps (AzDO) ecosystem is as easy as any other code hosting service. AzDO has added task types to help deploy directly to Azure subscriptions. In this post, we will look at creating a build pipeline with caching, discuss deploying to Azure App Service, and pushing a container to the Azure Container Registry for use in AKS. Building the Pipeline AzDO does have a GUI to help set up […]
As part of one of my projects, I was asked to research methods of transferring large amounts of data (> 1 Terabyte) between client-owned S3 buckets. Several suitable techniques are available. They include: Running parallel uploads using the AWS command-line interface (CLI) Using an AWS SDK (Source Development Kit) Using cross-region or same-region replication Using S3 batch operations Using S3DistCp with Amazon EMR Using AWS DataSync Some of these methods, such as copying files and directories using the AWS CLI […]
Can The Power Automate Process Advisor Be Used as a Time Study Tool? Microsoft has given us many tools over the years with multiple applications. The Process Advisor, now available in commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD environments, is simple enough to understand and use but has many potential applications. What is the Process Advisor? The Process Advisor is a tool included within Power Automate. It is used to record mouse clicks and keyboard keystrokes during a process. After recording […]
We know most software applications, desktop, mobile, or web, require a database at the backend to store data. When we look at current software applications, the complexity is very high, and they have a high frequency of data transactions. So, we need testing of the data stored and retrieved from the database to make sure it has proper data integrity. Any database operation performed by the application is always one of the four, Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete. We were […]
While recently working on moving an FTP server (using Passive FTP) from on-premises to Azure, I needed to expose the FTP server to the internet via an Azure External Load Balancer. A few things were not well documented. I thought it would be good to put together a step-by-step guide on setting up the load balancer, configuring the FTP server on the backend, and setting the Network Security Group rules associated with the FTP server. In this example, the FTP […]
In a previous article, we explored using the CSI Secrets Store Driver and Azure Provider to mount an HTTPS certificate stored in Azure Key Vault on pods deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This was done using Linux containers and an ASP.NET Core application. But what about .NET Framework applications on Windows containers? Let’s see if we can take the same approach. About Windows Containers Containers initially grew out of the Linux world based on its natural support for container […]
From Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) to TAS Previously known as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Tanzu Application Service (TAS) is an open-source, scalable platform as a service (PaaS) cloud application that allows users to manage Kubernetes-backed container services. TAS is designed to manage containers, Kubernetes, and microservices. An advantage of using this with a government client is that there seems to be a solid push to adopt this technology as a standard for Kubernetes-backed services. Allowing TAS to manage infrastructure lets […]
In the previous series of articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), we went over how to create Self-Documenting Azure Functions with C# and OpenAPI with generated OpenAPI specs. At the time, this was done with the current LTS versions, which meant Azure Functions V3 and .NET 3.1. Since then, .NET 6 and Azure Functions V4 have been released. Along with those, another very useful package has also been released: Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.OpenApi. This package removes the need for many of the […]
I recently enjoyed being involved in an internal Power Platform modernization hackathon. I want to share my experience to provide valuable insights and/or ideas to help others decide if they will participate in or host a hackathon themselves. What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is typically a single sprint event where a group of motivated technical folks collaborates intensely to implement and demonstrate the solution to a problem use case chosen by each team. It is a rapid development effort […]