Kunal Babre

Kunal Babre

GitHub Connect

GitHub provides everything an enterprise needs to enable organisations improve developer velocity and promote collaboration while staying secure end-to-end. As an enterprise you can leverage fully managed SaaS GitHub offering with GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) and/or have a self-hosted installation of GitHub known as GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). This

Densely packing DBs with Azure SQL

Densely packing DBs with Azure SQL

Azure SQL Databases (or Managed Instance) are great options over self-hosting and managing SQL Server, there are several advantages for example it drastically reduces management overhead of having to manage the Virtual Machine, HA setup etc. However, when it comes to hosting a large number of databases for example as

Lock access to your services only from Azure Front Door

Lock access to your services only from Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door (AFD) offers a global secure entry-point to the cloud. AFD has multiple features like WAF/CDN/Application acceleration at Microsoft’s edge etc. However, AFD does not support Private IP as a backend. In this article, I will cover a few approaches on restricting traffic to your

Simple Azure Application Deployment Patterns

Simple Azure Application Deployment Patterns

When it comes to migrating apps to Azure, one of the common asks I see is - hey I got a static web app with some .NET based WCF/REST services as a backend using SQL databases. How can I deploy the App in Azure and design it to be

Upgrading and Patching AKS

Upgrading and Patching AKS

Upgrades: In general, with any upgrade/update there is always likelihood things might fail so your team need to have multiple strategies, here are few suggestions that 1. Test upgrades on non-prod first (must) 2. AKS Upgrade API: The in-place upgrade should ideally work (easiest), one risk here is sometimes

Kubernetes Announcements at Build 2020

Kubernetes Announcements at Build 2020

Build 2020, had a lot of exciting announcements. Here is a quick cheat sheet of all the key announcement related to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Generally Available 1. Windows Server Containers Support for AKS 2. Private Link and Private Cluster Support, i.e. ability to isolate Kubernetes API server within

Long-Running Jobs with Azure Service Bus

Long-Running Jobs with Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is a messaging service available as a Platform-as-a-Service in the cloud and is intended for enterprise applications that require advance messaging features like transactions, ordering, duplicate detection and more. Scenario: I got a job that takes more than 5 minutes to complete, how can I keep the

Load-balancing in Azure

Load-balancing in Azure

Here is a short article to help to demystify the options available to load-balance your applications in Azure. Scenarios 1. Protocol is the service served over HTTP/S (Web workload) or is Non-HTTP/S. 2. Global vs Regional i.e. the service I am trying to load balance is it

Azure Migrate Server Assessment for your VMware Environment

Azure Migrate Server Assessment for your VMware Environment

You decided to get started on your migration journey and want to start by running assessments, here are two things you will need to get it setup 1. Server Discovery This process helps you discover the inventory of apps, and roles/features running on your on-premises machines helps you to

Cloud Migration with Azure Migrate

Cloud Migration with Azure Migrate

Are you planning to migrate your workloads to Azure? Then I will highly recommend learning about an Azure Migrate tool from Microsoft. Azure Migrate brings all the first party and lot of third-party tools that will help you migrate servers (windows and Linux), web applications, databases, Virtual Desktops, and large

Modernising a single-tenant .Net Framework app with AKS

Modernising a single-tenant .Net Framework app with AKS

The example above is a way to modernisation of a single-tenant .Net Framework application (with limited changes to the code). The example above consist of WebApp, API and a background service that is deployed individually for every single customer. These can easily be run on App Services as a WebApp,

Preparing for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Preparing for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Kubernetes is more than just the latest buzzword. In case you fancy getting certified here are some tips to get you started. Before we go into any details set the date and book your exam giving yourself at least a month is a good idea - commitment helps! Tip 1:

Is Agile Fragile ?

Is Agile Fragile ?

A stitch in time saves nine Importance of clear, unambiguous requirements cannot be understated. A clear well understood requirement is several times quicker to deliver than long vague requirement. Defining clear requirements needs commitment and discipline. Often we jump to developing a solution before understanding the requirement; sometime we incorrectly