Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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CRUD in WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin and MySQL
This post demonstrates how to persist data in MySQL when building cloud-native applications with Fermyon Spin. Leveraging the Spin SDK for Rust.
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Master configuration data in Fermyon Spin
Learn how to use sensitive and non-sensitive configuration data in Fermyon Spin. Pull secrets from HashiCorp Vault, and read configuration data from components written in Rust.
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Azure Blob Storage using the Azure SDK for Go
This article demonstrates how to authenticate against Azure using azidentity and azblob to interact with Azure Blob Storage data plane using the Azure SDK for Go
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Building Microservices With WebAssembly and Fermyon Spin
WebAssembly will change the way we architecture cloud-native applications. Start your WebAssembly journey on the server and in the cloud with Fermyon Spin
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Hot-Reload .NET Configuration in Kubernetes with ConfigMaps
Learn how to implement hot-reload for your configuration data in .NET by leveraging Kubernetes' ConfigMaps
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Instrumenting .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry
Observability is a critical attribute that every cloud-native applications should address. This article explains how to implement observability in .NET applications with OpenTelemetry.
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Background Workers in Azure Container Apps with KEDA
This article demonstrates how to build a scalable background worker for processing messages from Azure Service Bus and host it in Azure Container Apps
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How to build multi-arch Docker Images with ease
This article explains how to build Docker Images for multiple architectures using Docker and buildx.
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Provision AKS and NAT Gateway with Terraform
This post explains what Azure NAT Gateway is, its benefits, and how we can deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with associated NAT Gateway using Terraform
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Patch Kubernetes objects with .NET: The Simple Way
This article demonstrates how to update objects in Kubernetes leveraging the official C# client library and JSON patch
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How to Deploy Azure Container Apps with Terraform
This article demonstrates how to provision Azure Container Apps with Terraform using the AzAPI provider
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Let's build a gRPC server and client in Rust with tonic
In this article, we will build a gRPC server and client from scratch using Rust and tonic
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Awarded as a Docker Captain and as a Microsoft MVP
I am more than humbled and honored to share that I got awarded as Docker Captain and Microsoft MVP
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Docker SBOM - or how to dive into shift-left security
Se how to dive into shift-left security by creating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) straight from Docker CLI and integrate with vulnerability scanners
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az containerapp up - AKA amazing inner-loop performance
Learn how to deploy your code to Azure Container Apps using the new "az containerapp up" command.
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How to lint Docker images with Dockle
Learn how to lint your Docker images with Dockle to secure and harden your Docker images and adopt best practices for building Docker images
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Check if your application is running in a Docker container
See how to check if your application runs inside of a Docker container or not. This post shows how to do it with no 3rd party deps. Samples in Go and Rust
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Managed Identities With Azure Container Apps
This tutorial guides you through the process of using user-assigned managed identities (MSI) with Azure Container Apps (ACA).
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Logging in Kubernetes with Loki and the PLG stack
Use the PLG (Promtail, Loki, Grafana) log stack to discover, transform, index, query visualize logs from distributed applications in Kubernetes with ease
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Let's build a CLI in Go with Cobra
Learn how to build custom CLIs in Go with Cobra. Dive into the - perhaps - most popular Go-module when it comes to build CLIs. Craft your first CLI now.
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Custom health probes with Azure Container Apps
In this article you'll see how to configure custom health probes for your containers running in Azure Container Apps (ACA). Learn how to configure startup, readiness and liveness probes.
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How to run your own Helm Repository on Azure Container Apps
This walk-through demonstrates how to run a custom Helm repository on Azure Container Apps leveraging ChartMuseum with an Azure Storage Account.
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Master Azure CLI queries - The missing manual
Take your Azure CLI skills to the next level and learn what you can achieve using the JMESPath query syntax
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Custom health probes with Application Gateway Ingress Controller
Learn how to customize health probes in Azure Application Gateway when using Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC).
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Exposing gRPC services in Azure Container Apps
Do you want to expose gRPC services in the public cloud using Azure? With Azure Container Apps you can host public facing gRPC APIs in no time.