Point-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections are helpful when you want to connect to your VNet from a remote location. This helps us securely connect individual clients running Windows, Linux, or macOS to an Azure VNet. This blog will outline steps to create and test a Point to Site VPN while using an Azure Certificate Authentication method. Create a VNet Sign in to the Azure portal. In Search, type Virtual Network. Select Virtual Network from the Marketplace results. Once you […]
For those new to Kubernetes, it’s a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services facilitating configuration and automation. This blog will cover a high-level overview of Kubernetes architecture and components. The image below outlines the various components that we will walk through in this guide. The master node controls and manages a set of worker nodes and contains the Kubernetes cluster. We can talk to the master node via CLI, GUI, or API, and more than one […]
What is Ansible? It is the most trusted DevOps tool for many users, which can be used in platforms like Unix, Linux, and Windows Azure. It’s an open-source tool used to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, and App deployments. In addition, it helps provision virtual machines, networks, containers, and complete cloud infrastructures. How is Ansible Used? It’s been used in the form of a playbook file written in YAML format like AKS to define a configuration or process model. A […]
Creating Self Documenting Azure Functions with C# and OpenAPI: Part Three When migrating existing business services to Azure PaaS as part of an App Modernization project, you may find yourself seriously considering serverless computing using Azure Functions, especially if your target architecture includes MicroServices. Azure Functions let you focus on what counts — your requirements, your time, and your code — and less about boilerplate code, infrastructure, and processes. When creating new APIs in any technology, one thing is essential: […]
What is Puppet? Puppet is a configuration management tool developed by Puppet labs to automate infrastructure management and configuration. Puppet includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. It is a model-driven solution that requires limited programming knowledge to use. Puppet Architecture Puppet Master: It performs a critical role by handling all the configuration-related tasks. It applies the configuration to all the target nodes or the client machines. Puppet Agent: The Puppet Agent is the application that manages the […]
When migrating existing business services to Azure PaaS as part of an App Modernization project, you may find yourself seriously considering serverless computing using Azure Functions, especially if your target architecture includes MicroServices. Azure Functions let you focus on what counts — your requirements, your time and your code — and less about boilerplate code, infrastructure and processes. When creating new APIs in any technology, one thing is very important: Documenting those APIs so that others can use them. This […]
Establishing a Clear Cloud Adoption Strategy As we hear a lot of buzz about cloud adoption, I wanted to share my thoughts about cloud adoption approaches and strategies to migrating on-premises workloads to public clouds in this blog. This blog predominantly covers infrastructure assets migration in line with applications. As many would feel that cloud adoption brings significant cost savings to OpEx and CapEx, it requires meticulous planning, design, and architecting. This requires careful consideration of various aspects such as […]
The first AWS service (S3) was launched in September 2006. My humble journey in the cloud started in 2007, leading up to my first cloud talk in New York in 2008. In this blog post, I want to talk about what I, and we collectively, have learned from the last decade in the cloud and how to use this knowledge to drive cloud value. Let us get started. By now, the transformational benefits of the cloud are well established. Look […]
When migrating existing business services to Azure PaaS as part of an App Modernization project, you may find yourself seriously considering serverless computing using Azure Functions, especially if your target architecture includes MicroServices. Azure Functions let you focus on what counts — your requirements, your time, and your code — and less about boilerplate code, infrastructure, and processes. When creating new APIs in any technology, one thing is very important: Documenting those APIs so that others can use them. This […]
In May, AIS held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform plays in modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. The integration team focused on leveraging existing Power Platform connectors to add new functionality to the system. For example, the system sends the order confirmation email to the user using the Office Outlook connector in the Power Automate Flow. Similarly, it sends […]