So you’ve written Infrastructure As Code, Automated All The Things, and drank deeply of the DevOps Kool-Aid on your current project – what’s next? You’ve been reaping the rewards of DevOps at some scale, and your one-off DevOps effort has earned a lot of positive attention – now, management would like you to implement DevOps for all the projects! How do you spread the DevOps wealth, and what do you need to be successful? Delivering DevOps What is DevOps? For […]
Azure API Management service has been around since 2014. AIS has been implementing solutions using Azure API Management for almost as long. I am working on a project that recently introduced new requirements that seemed like a good fit for API Management, so we looked into it. As a result, we decided to use Azure API Management and recently deployed it into production. I want to share some of the considerations in making that decision and some of the implementation […]
From C# Developer to DevOps Engineer Over the last couple of years, I’ve become a DevOps Engineer after having been primarily a C# developer. Instead of primarily C# and SQL, I was now working almost exclusively with JSON, YAML, and PowerShell. While I was very familiar with Visual Studio 2013/2015/2017 and its excellent support for the .NET work I did over the years, I found the experience for building DevOps solutions to be underwhelming. At the time, the Intellisense for […]
Recently I was working on a project for a DoD client looking to move multiple, siloed on-premise data workloads to the cloud as part of an Azure capabilities proof of concept. The client needed to upload large amounts of data, create parquet files, perform ad-hoc analysis using jupyter notebooks, and make data available to query using SQL for a reporting dashboard. A single dataset was approximately a terabyte with all the data measured in petabytes. After completing the analysis, we […]
Microsoft Azure Government DC is a group created for anyone in the IT world modernizing government with a goal of bringing real-world lessons to innovators in Government. AIS has supported and presented during these events when there were just 5 members. Now, the group in nearing 4,000 members. In March, we presented on Authority to Operate (ATO) and Compliance in Azure Gov. Check out the recording and overview below. Here’s What You Missed AIS Cloud Security and Compliance Solutions Architect, […]
Spring Framework is one of the most popular frameworks for application development using Java. Spring Boot is one of the top modules of Spring Framework, which is widely used to build enterprise-grade highly scalable backend applications. Spring Boot is very popular to develop microservices using open-source technologies, and its Pivotal Team develops it. Microsoft and Pivotal/VMware build and operate Azure Spring Cloud, a native Azure service offered as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and available on Azure Marketplace. Why Use […]
If you want to create robust automated workflows in Azure, integrating Azure Logic Apps with Azure Functions can be a valuable solution. A logic app is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) that offers extensive options to create powerful workflows. This service is beneficial if you need a structured series of events to support your Azure-hosted application(s). To craft workflows, you can use a “no-code” method. Azure Logic Apps offers a graphical user interface approach to creating workflows, which bridges […]
Before you start deep dive for implementing DevSecOps in this blog post, please review the fundamentals of DevSecOps in my first blog post. It will help understand the ‘Sec’ in DevSecOps and get up to speed on various security tools for implementing DevSecOps in your CI/CD pipeline. Although there are many code repositories tools with CI/CD built-in, this blog walks through GitHub and its security scanning tools for DevSecOps implementations. This blog post provides a GitHub repo for you to […]
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has introduced a feature called Managed Virtual Network (MVN) to connect Azure PaaS resources securely and privately from on-premises without opening corporate boundary firewall to Azure PaaS public IPs. To run an on-premises backend job using PaaS services such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL, a corporate boundary firewall may need to be opened to Azure PaaS service public IP addresses. If you receive pushback from InfoSec to punch a hole in the firewall, you are not […]
Have you spent a lot of time getting comfortable using Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Azure Pipelines only to be switched to GitLab CI/CD for a project? That’s what happened to me about four months ago. Since then, I’ve been learning the differences between the tools. There are several differences between Azure Pipelines and GitLab CI/CD that I’ve experienced. This post aims to be a primer for you to understand these differences and save you a lot of research time. […]