If you are doing any work related to containers and Azure, you are most likely using Azure Container Registry for storing images. The amoun of storage available for these images depends on the pricing tier you are using. If you exceed this amount of storage, you will pay an additional fee for every GB of image data that exceeds the limit. See the table below for the current pricing details. Azure Container Registry pricing details ...
In most projects that I’ve been part of, sooner or later the need for various types of automation jobs arises. For example cleaning up old files, moving database backups, running health checks or system tests and so on. Historically we’ve implemented these tasks using for example the Windows task scheduler, or through some custom Windows Service app. More recently, we’ve been using Azure Automation jobs for this. Sometimes it can also make sense to use CI/CD automation tools like Azure DevOps for these jobs. ...
Many of us have eagerly been waiting for the announcement that Microsoft made at the Build 2019 conference, Windows Containers is now in public preview in Azure Kubernetes Service! Yes, it’s in preview so we still have to wait before putting applications into production but it is definitely time to start planning and testing migrations of your Windows applications to AKS, such as full .NET Framework apps. Containers on Windows are still not as mature as on Linux of course, but they are fully supported on Windows and it is now GA on Kubernetes since version 1.14. ...
In a previous post I talked about how to create a build environment, including an Azure DevOps build agent, using Docker and Windows Containers. Using Dockerfiles, we can specify everything that we need in order to build and test our projects. Docker gives us Infrastructure as Code (no more snowflake build servers) and isolation which makes it easy to spin up multiple agents quickly on one or more machines without interfering with each other. ...
In March, Mathias Olausson and I will run two fullday deep dive in continuous delivery and microservices on Azure. During the day you will learn about microservice architecture and how to build and deploy these using container technology and cloud services in Microsoft Azure. The agenda looks like this: Microservices architecture Design principles- Breaking up the monolith - Implementing trunk based development practices with Visual Studio Team Services Feature flags- Pull requests- Branch/Build policies - Using container techonologies for packaging and delivering applications with zero downtime Docker for Windows- Kubernetes Azure Container registry Azure Container Services (AKS) Deployment pipelines with Visual Studio Team Services ...
If you are running your applications in Azure, and in particular on PaaS, you need to take a look ARM templates as a way to manage your environments. ARM templates let’s you define and deploy your entire environment using JSON files that you store together with the rest of your source code. The deployment of ARM templates are idempotent, meaning that you can run them many times and it will always produce the same result. ...
This december we at Active Solution team up with Microsoft Sweden to deliver a full day of Azure and Internet of Things (IoT) goodness in 4 different cities around Sweden: Malmö – Dec 1- Göteborg – Dec 2- Umeå – Dec 8- Stockholm – Dec 9 This is a unique opportunity for devlopers, startups and students that want to learn more about what Microsoft Azure has to offer and how you can implement IoT solutions together with Azure. ...