Azure Managed Prometheus is a brand-new managed service offering on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure. It is currently in preview and expected to become generally available later this year. It allows you to collect and analyze metrics at scale from Azure Kubernetes Service or any other Kubernetes cluster running self-managed Prometheus…

Some of you might be already familiar with dependabot, a neat solution to monitor your GitHub repository to ensure that your solution automatically keeps up with the latest releases of the packages and applications it depends on. Dependabot is integrated in GitHub and supports a wide variety of packages called…

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). …

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. …

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 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. …

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…