Earlier in 2021 I’ve published a blog post on how to implement Locust via Terraform to conduct globally distributed load tests in Azure with Locust.io on Azure Container Instances (ACI). ACI in combination with Locust is a powerful solution to temporarily spin up infrastructure to run load tests from various…

I work a lot with Terraform, due to my job especially with the AzureRM provider. The AzureRM provider is used to deploy and configure nearly all available resources in Microsoft Azure. The team is doing an amazing job and is releasing an updated version by the end of nearly every…

Azure Virtual Networks (or short VNets) are the fundamental building block for all network and network-related configurations in Microsoft Azure. They provide a logical boundary allowing you to secure network communication between the attached Azure resources. By default these resources can talk to each other and out to the Internet…

I recently had to deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) in Azure needed for a self-hosted agent pool for Azure DevOps. I decided to use Terraform to implement that and even though this should not be a big deal at all, I came a cross a couple of challenges…

I recently came across the challenge to conduct massive distributed load tests on an scalable application hosted in Azure. After doing some research on the web I found a couple of viable tools, including Locust which I had already heard of in one of my recent customer projects. I therefore…

In Part 3 of this series we are going to take a deeper look into the Prometheus support of Azure Monitor for Containers. If you would like to learn more about Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, please take a look on the previous parts: AKS Monitoring Deep Dive — Part…

In Part 1 of this series we have seen the various native options Azure Kubernetes Service provides in combination with Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and Container Insights. We have also seen how to enable the integration of Azure Monitor as well as configuring the Diagnostic settings. The following diagram from…

Azure Kubernetes Service, or short AKS, is Microsoft Azure’s managed Kubernetes offering. Eventhough it is a managed service it still gives you plenty of options in regards to infrastructure and application monitor you should take into consideration for running workloads in production. In this post we are mainly focussing on…

Azure App Service is Microsoft Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering to quickly build, deploy and scale web apps and APIs. It supports .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, PHP, Java and many more in containers running on Windows or Linux. Even though Azure App Service does already support a variety of languages out-of-the-box…