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Isis Project (DevOps)

Posted on February 10, 2021August 16, 2024 by ccastro

This post walks you through a fully infrastructure as a code stack, we gonna use few tools to help us to setup the entire environment in Azure. Applications Prometheus Grafana DNS record Tools Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) Terraform Helm First of, we need to create our K8S cluster and to do Continue Reading

Posted In Cloud, DevOps, IacTagged In automation, isis

Azure Virtual Machine with Terraform

Posted on February 5, 2021August 16, 2024 by ccastro

If you are ~40 years old, back to the old days how much time you were used to spend to install a brand new computer and have it ready to go? For sure it was days, weeks, sometimes I would say months, starting with the getting budget to buy a Continue Reading

Posted In Azure, CloudTagged In azure, terraform

Azure Kubernetes with Terraform

Posted on January 31, 2021August 16, 2024 by ccastro

When we talk about kubernetes running natively in the cloud, usually we don’t need to create virtual machines and install the kubernetes, we can if we want it, but there is a product called AKS ( Azure Kubernetes Service ) that we can use without take care of the admin Continue Reading

Posted In AKS, Azure, Cloud, DevOpsTagged In terraform

???? Happy 2021

Posted on January 4, 2021August 16, 2024 by ccastro

This post is just to wish you a wonderful 2021, the last year was tough. The Covid-19 pandemic brought so much sadness, fear but also hope. We all are facing this situation and we will win together. If 2020 was one year full of sadness, let’s make 2021 one year Continue Reading

Posted In CloudTagged In covid19, happy new year

How to switch from an AKS cluster to another

Posted on October 22, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

A good friend of mine asked me about Azure Kubernetes, the famous AKS. The question was, how can I easily switch from one cluster to another? So, there are quite a few ways to do that task, I going to show you two of them that I usually use. Via Continue Reading

Posted In AKS, CloudTagged In aks

☁️ Azure Bastion and Network Security Group

Posted on October 10, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

The Azure Bastion is a service that allow you to connect to your virtual machines without a public IP. The connection is through TLS, which means you are able to reach your machine ( SSH or RDP ) via a browser. You can configure Azure Bastion service without a NSG Continue Reading

Posted In Azure, CloudTagged In bastion, cli, shell

How to push a docker image to Azure Container Registry

Posted on August 19, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

Hi guys, I have prepared some steps to allow you to upload your local docker image to ACR. Login into docker hub Pull your image Login into Azure and set your current subscription Login into ACR Tag your image Push the image to ACR Check if your image was uploaded Continue Reading

Posted In CloudTagged In acr, azure, docker

How to rent a flat in Germany

Posted on August 17, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

That’s definitely something complicated to achieve in Germany. I’m gonna tell you my own experience with the process, more specifically in Berlin, which means worked for me, not necessary it’s gonna work for you too, but I think it can help you somehow. The first thing that we did was, Continue Reading

Posted In GermanyTagged In berlin, rent

How to upgrade the AKS version via CLI

Posted on August 6, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

To upgrade the Azure Kubernetes Service version via command line is easy. Follow these steps below and be happy ???? First you need to login into your Azure account Then select your subscription To see current version: It takes some time, after that you can run again the command to Continue Reading

Posted In AKS, Azure, Cloud, IacTagged In azure, k8s

Azure SNAT Port Exhaustion

Posted on June 30, 2020August 16, 2024 by ccastro

SNAT port exhaustion can be something hard to visualize in Azure portal, first we need to have a standard loadbalancer, the basic one doesn’t have this feature, for who have the basic loadbalncer it’s necessary to call to Microsoft Support and check your number of snat used, which is really Continue Reading

Posted In IacTagged In azure, loadbalancer, network

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