Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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How to use Azure Cosmos DB as a key-value store for Fermyon Spin
Fermyon Spin now supports using Azure Cosmos DB as key-value store for your Spin apps. This article explains how to get it up and running in no time!
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Compute a SHA256 Hash of a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to compute a SHA256 hash of a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Download an Image to a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we download an image from the web and store it in a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Get all Files in a Directory
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we look at how to build a vector containing all file names of a particular directory
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How I replaced the backend of my blog with Spin & Fermyon Cloud
This story explains and illustrates how I migrated the backend for my blog from containers to WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin & Fermyon Cloud
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A First Glance at the Spin Router for Rust
With Fermyon Spin 1.1, Spin SDKs for Rust and GoLang come built-in routers for HTTP apps. This article demonstrates how to use the new router in Rust to layout a full-fledged HTTP API.
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Let's build a HTTP router for Spin with Rust
In this post, we will build a HTTP router in Rust using enums and pattern matching to address more sophisticated routing scenarios in single component Spin apps.
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Let Spin lift your key-value store
This article demonstrates how to leverage the built-in key-value store in Fermyon Spin by building an URL shortener.
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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