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Kunal Babre

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A collection of 17 posts

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

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