Make Azure Container Registry and Azure Kubernetes Service instance talk to each other secure.
We need to grant permission to our Kubernetes cluster service principal to be able to pull docker images from our private container registry.
Continue readingDeploying a Kubernetes cluster in Azure using command line interface is an easy task. We will deploy a k8s cluster with custom nodes configuration specified for Elasticsearch.
Elastic stack in AKS. Part 1 Provisioning Kubernetes with Terraform
Source code is available at repository https://github.com/mchudinov/K8sAzureAzCli
Let’s get started.
Continue readingThis is part 1 of a serious of blog posts about deploying Elastic stack in Azure Kubernetes Service.
Related GitHub repository with Terraform source code K8sAzurTerraform
Continue readingAzure Web App supports deployment slots. Production slot is the main one and there can be a couple of others. In order to follow a principle of least privileges different slots should have different security principals for deployment.
A service principal with deployment permissions for only a dedicated slot is useful in order to limit access to production deployment.
Continue readingSometimes we need to restrict access to some URL-path of a Web application from Internet while allow to access the whole web site. This kind of restriction might be relevant for example for a administrative user interface or a special API that should not be accessed from Internet.
Here is mine a IT-system documentation template. Once the documentation is in place it is widely used by developers, testers, users and management. Isn’t it much better to just refer to a paragraph in docs and send an URL to a colleague then describe the same thing over and over again in e-mails?
Continue reading
This is a simple tutorial on how to set up accounting and roles authorization in an ASP.NET MVC 5 application using ASP.NET Identity framework.
Sample project can be downloaded here https://github.com/mchudinov/AspMvc5Identity
This tutorial is based on chapters 13 and 14 about ASP.NET identity from an excellent book by Adam Freeman “Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform“.
During a couple of my last .Net projects I used the same cache interface and implementations of it with MemoryCache, System.Web.Caching.Cache and CacheManager.
Visual Studio solution is available here https://github.com/mchudinov/CacheNet. Solution includes source code in both C# and Visual Basic.
Continue reading
Customizable and extendable Web API caching with CacheManager, Strathweb.CacheOutput and Redis in the backend.
Source code for solution is available here https://github.com/mchudinov/WebApiCache
