When working with Azure's Application Insights, there's some times where I would've wanted to quickly and programmatically export specific events, search the logs or otherwise pull some data out based on dynamic metrics of applications or monitoring solutions I've set up. In this post we'll take a look at how easy it is to use the Microsoft.Azure.ApplicationInsights NuGet package to utilize .NET Core to retrieve data programmatically from Application Insights. For example, in the Azure Portal I can easily see my Application Insights data on demand and search and filter my logs in the intuitive and simplified UI:…
Azure App Configuration helps us centralize configuration and makes it a lot easier to manage distributed apps, web sites, Functions, containers, your microservices and more.…
If you've ever encountered the Azure DevOps/VSTS error "The current operating system is not capable of running this task" when trying to use for example the "Azure File Copy" task, then you can learn about a workaround using the Azure CLI build task here.…
Explore Azure Dev Spaces for AKS, to easily do development work, and hit F5 to update in Kubernetes in your dev space. Quicker, easier and more reliable iterations will win the day.…
With Azure Container Registry, or ACR, we get a lot of great capabilities to host our Docker images in the Azure cloud. With that, as with everything else, comes security concerns we should not overlook. In this post I'm exploring how we can lock down all access to our ACR by default, and then enable access based on an IP address or range of IP addresses. This is similar to what I've already explained in another post about Secure your Azure Storage Accounts with restrictions based on public IP addresses. If you haven't seen that, take a look there how…
Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren journeys into the land of containers and demonstrates how to build a .NET Core API, hosted in Azure Container Instances and secured using HTTPS with Application Gateway. Tag along!…
Pro tip on how you can easily context-switch your clusters in your command line tools (Kubectl) for Azure Kubernetes Services, or any other Kubernetes deployment.…
Azure Container Instances with Azure Managed Identity, accessing data in a Key Vault without using any stored credentials - all done in C# with .NET Core. Tag along!…