Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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ACR Unleashed – Tasks
Leverage ACR tasks to create Docker Image automatically. Start small with Quick Tasks, grow by adding different Triggers and master Multi-Step Tasks by example
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European Azure Conference 2020
Announcing European Azure Conference 2020 (#EAC20) in Nice from June 2nd till June 4th
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API Summit - IaC for everyone with Terraform
Slidedeck and Demos from my IaC for everyone with Terraform talk at API Summit 2019 in Berlin.
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ESPC 2019 - Interview
Fabian Williams interviewed me during #ESPC19 to get my thoughts about ESPC, Infrastructure as Code and the growing diversity and community at European SharePoint, Office365 and Azure Conference
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ACR Unleashed – Webhooks
Connect any external service to Azure Container Registry using ACR webhooks. Learn which ACR webhooks exist and how to use them
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ESPC 2019 - Code your Azure with Terraform
Slidedeck and Demos from my Code your Azure Deployments using HashiCorp Terraform talk at European SharePoint and Azure Conference 2019 in Prague.
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Docker on Windows - Fix Time Synchronization Issue
Are your Docker containers on Windows behind a couple of hours or even days? Are they displaying or working with a wrong time/date? Read why this happens and how to fix it.
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ACR Unleashed – Integrate ACR And Azure Monitor
Get ACR metricts with Azure Monitor. Configure individual alrets and notifications. Integrate ACR and Azure Monitor with Log Analytics Workspaces now. Start now and get deep insights
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ACR Unleashed – Authentication, Identity Access Management And Content-Trust
Deep Dive Authentication and Authorization for Azure Container Registry. Guide to understand and lockdown your ACR instances.
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ACR Unleashed – ACR Up And Running with Geo Replication
Setup Azure Container Registry according to best practices. Configure ACR geo replication for high availability. The 1st of a 7 part series about ACR
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Book review - Kubernetes Up & Running 2nd Edition
The 2nd Edition of Kubernetes: Up & Running has been released recently. I really liked the first edition, so I sat down and read the new version.
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - Review and Tips
During this week, I took the CKAD exam and passed. Read why I registered for that exam and get some tips to prepare properly for your take on CKAD or CKA.
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Join my webinar about Terraform and Azure during Azure Week
Ramp up your Terraform skills. Join my webinar about Terraform and Azure on the 18th of October as part of Azure Week.
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AKS and ACR Integration - Revisited
Integrating AKS and ACR to pull images from private Container Registries became easier with recent Azure CLI 2.0 releases. Check out how easy you can connect both excellent services.
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The state of Helm 3 - Hands-On!
Helm 3 is approaching fast and comes with some fundamental changes. See what's happening and how those changes feel in Beta 3.
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Custom domains in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with NGINX Ingress and Azure CLI
See how to link a custom domain to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure CLI and NGINX Ingress
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Six golden rules of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
In this post I share my six golden rules for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) projects.
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Terraform - State demystified
State Management is critical in Terraform. This post provides an overview of what state is and how you should deal with it.
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Terraform - The Definitive Guide for Azure Enthusiasts
Learn core concepts of Terraform. Automate your Microsoft Azure environments to ramp-up Infrastructure as Code. Dive into HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). Start terraforming your cloud, now.
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Azure Key Vault FlexVolume for Kubernetes — A journey to integrate Azure Key Vault and AKS
Integrate Azure Key Vault and Azure Kubernetes services without leaking sensitive configuration data such as Service Principal credentials by using Azure AD Pod Identity and Azure Key Vault FlexVolume for Kubernetes
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AzureAD Pod Identity in AKS: A journey to integrate Azure Key Vault
With Azure AD Pod Identity you can finally run any pod in an Azure Kubernetes Service in the context of an external, loosely coupled Azure Identity. This builds the foundation for a seamless integration of Azure Key Vault and AKS
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Inspect your Kubernetes inventory in no time with ASP.NET Core and Kubernetes Client Library
Learn how to use the C# Kubernetes Client library to query Kubernetes inventory and expose it via HTTP using a simple ASP.NET Core WebAPI which will be directly deployed to an AKS cluster as Deployment.
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Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure Container Services
Learn how to integrate Azure Key Vault and Azure Container Services. This article guides you through everything you need, in order to query Key Vault from an ASP.NET Core App running in a Pod on Kubernetes
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Limit resources for containers with LimitRanges in Kubernetes
Managing resources and resource limits is essential to optimize utilization of Kubernetes clusters. This post demonstrates how to limit resources for Pods in K8s
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Upgrading a Kubernetes cluster on AKS using Azure CLI
The AKS team offers a great set of commands to make administrative operations for Kubernetes clusters very easy. This article demonstrates how to upgrade a AKS cluster.