Category Archives: infrastructure

Elastic stack in AKS. Part 2 Provisioning Kubernetes with az CLI

Deploying 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

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How to block access to URL-path using Azure App Gateway

Sometimes 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.

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How to install PEAR on Windows

There was a PEAR installer go-pear.bat that referred to ./PEAR/go-pear.phar in php versions prior to 5.3 on Windows. But since version 5.3 this installer is absent. Strange enough but official PEAR installation guide still refers to the absent go-pear.bat file. But then it writes about update of PEAR installation by requesting a new go-pear.phar and that is what we should actually do at the beginning.
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