In this post I'm talking about how you can use something called secureValue, or secure environment variables, with your Azure Container Instance. Given the sensitive nature of some data you put into the variables, it is a good idea to understand different ways to protect some of that data - with secure environment variables you can hide the values from the UI and API calls to the ACI, and from the Azure Portal. BackgroundRunning your applications in the cloud has become increasingly popular. Migrating your .NET applications to .NET Core and hosting them as Docker images in the cloud is…
Guide to running .NET Core apps as containers in Azure Container Instances. Step by step, from ground to cloud with Tobias Zimmergren!…
In this post, I am talking about how we can practically make use of the Azure File share that is mounted to our containers in AKS. I'm examining a PoC of how you can query a SQLite database hosted on an Azure File share, accessed from multiple containers at a huge scale simultaneously. It's fun, tag along.This is a mini-series with two parts.How to: Mount an Azure Storage File share to containers in AKS.(this post) Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services.I've simplified the sample code for this…
In this article, I am talking about how to share a mounted Azure file share across multiple containers in your deployments in Microsoft's hosted Kubernetes offering, AKS.This is a mini-series with two parts.(this post) How to: Mount an Azure Storage File share to containers in AKS.Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services.Step by stepTo get started, we'll need an Azure Storage account and an Azure Kubernetes Services cluster up and running. Create an Azure file shareFor the sake of ease and to keep a somewhat visual appeal in…
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Learn how to send logs to Azure Log Analytics using C# with this simple helper wrapper.…
Many people are using the offerings in Microsoft Azure and hold their data in some type of storage containers. In Azure, this can come in the form of an Azure Storage Account, which this article is focusing on.I'll discuss and walk through how to BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys) to your Azure Storage Accounts, and use a Key Vault to point to the encryption keys that you own yourself.Link tip: Bring Your Own Encryption (Wikipedia)Link tip: Pricing and Restrictions for BYOK in Azure (Microsoft Docs)Link tip: Hardware Encryption vs. Software Encryption: The Simple Guide - Sam…
Security in the cloud is an essential part of any organization's long-term success. In this post we'll explore how to configure RBAC, or Role-Based Access Control, for resources in Azure.…