Alex K.

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Azure Azure cloud and cloud services

Deploy Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator to AKS

Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes is the cloud-native way to manage your own database-as-a-service (DaaS) in any public, private, or hybrid cloud. Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes is an enterprise deployment solution for PostgreSQL that unlocks true open-source cost savings and efficiency with the flexibility to run your databases on any infrastructure from a single interface. 'Cui bono' you
Azure DevOps Kubernetes PostgreSQL

Enable SSH for containerized Azure Functions

Very often, in the active development phase, regular logging does not help too much. Azure Functions that process some data or heavier payloads (like images or video files even) tend to store temporary processing data inside the container. By default, there's no way you can get inside the container to take a look at what's going on at the file system level. For such purposes, Secure Shell (SSH)
Azure DevOps

Design your app for the cloud (best practices)

I had no opportunity to write in recent days. In this topic, I decided to share something unusual and highly theoretical. I want to talk about the best practices for adapting apps for the cloud (Microsoft Azure, particularly, but most of them are applicable to any cloud provider). I hope that the concepts outlined below will help you to understand the process better, and hence, apply it in
Azure DevOps

Fixing an issue with self-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines

If you decided to go with a self-hosted agent(s) as I described in one of my previous articles, you might run into specific runtime issues related to the absence of a framework or software installed on a target machine. One such error is “[error] No agent found in pool … which satisfies the specified demands: java Agent.Version -gtVersion 2…x”. The ways it looks in Azure Pipelines: The error
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SSH keys to access your VMs securely

We have already covered SSL certificates preparation and conversion in the previous topic. For completeness sake, I’d like to cover another important aspect in DevOps, which is SSH keys configuration. The case where you may need an SSH key are: Accessing a Linux-based Virtual Machine (VM) Accessing Git repository Build/release pipeline Deployment automation tools like Chef/Ansible/Puppet etc.
Azure DevOps

SSL done the right way

This time I decided to devote a separate topic to generate a Private Key and CSR. In the world of DevOps, security certificates are something you deal with on a daily basis, so knowing how to get an SSL certificate and convert it into a proper format is critical. Despite many similar topics over the internet, people still can’t make heads and tails around this theme and the explanation below is
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The theory of control

The idea to write this topic came to me after a production system failure we experienced recently. Failures are unavoidable. Nothing is worse than having your business application down without the proper way to mitigate the issue. That’s exactly how the catastrophe may develop, i.e. due to the somebody's negligence, lack of experience, bugs sneaked into the software, natural disaster, hacker
Azure DevOps

AZ-102 my way and the new role-based certifications explained

Oh boy, what a week! It's been a hasty preparation as this exam retires tomorrow. I had to put in extra effort to get this done, and I am absolutely happy about my achievement. The funny thing - I was taking part in beta testing of this and other transition exams, but never had time to take it for real... Until the note from MS landed in my mailbox, saying that AZ-102 is about to retire soon. So,
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DevOps Friday: Scalability in Azure

Scalability and resiliency are important quality attributes for any Enterprise Application. When it comes to scalability, Azure has multiple options to achieve the goal. This article can be helpful not only for the beginners who want to familiarize themselves with different scalability tactics but also for the professionals looking to broaden their horizons around this Architectural aspect. I
Azure DevOps Architecture

DevOps Friday: Using SonarQube with Azure DevOps

If you never used static analyzers in your project, it’s about time. The idea is not new, although, it’s a huge asset to the development business. SonarQube is a set of static analyzers that can be used to identify areas of improvement in your code (eliminate code smells, excessive complexity, code inconsistencies, security vulnerabilities etc.). It also allows you to analyze the technical debt
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