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he modern enterprise is adopting both cloud and DevOps to drive business outcomes. These outcomes in [More]

Every day, a traditional business joins the legion of organizations worldwide that are choosing to a [More]

While we’ve all been talking about cloud for several years, it’s clear that there’s still a long way [More]

As the journey to cloud continues to gather pace, I have been looking at how to accelerate the adopt [More]

DevOps will make systems more secure. In opposite to what many think, adopting DevOps, with its fast release cadence, will result in hardened systems which are fully compliant with security guidelines and which can stand the modern hackers. Summary.Teams must follow, must inject, secure guidelines and practices in their way of working. This way of working needs to be highly automated, supported by machine learning and role playing. Fast, flexible, innovative, cheap, compliant and secure are the common requirements the business has on systems. In the past these requirements where a tradeoff from each other. Fast, flexible and innovative never went hand in hand with compliant and secure. With ... [More]

Sven wrote a detailed How To covering the creating of a release pipelines for a secure Azure Service Fabric cluster and the containing services, based on a project we did together. These posts with the sources on GitHub provides some great information.The posts: Create and import the certificates Register SF Application in AAD and create AppKey Generate encrypted AppKey Lookup the service principles Create the Key Vaults with ARM Adjust the SF Application settings Upload certificates to Key Vault Register the Service Fabric System Applications Install SF Cluster with ARM Install the SF Application(s) with ARMThe sources: https://github.com/sven73a/blog.asf.arm.s... [More]

A sample implementation is available on GitHub.Appium is an opensource test framework for validating [More]

Azure load testing can set load on your system from any location around the world. Azure availability tests can monitor and analyze the responsiveness of your system anywhere in the world.Interesting capabilities even more interesting when you combine them in an investigation of your system. When you put some load on one part of your system and monitor the availability of another part you can analyze if that load impacts the availability of the other part. When the analytics are positive, there is an impact, it is a candidate for decoupling so the parts can scale independent. PaaS services, Containers or a CDN to the rescue.The scenarioThe sales of PartsUnlimited is expanded to Asia. Due to ... [More]

Handling configuration settings for environments/ development stages is not always easy and straight forward. Application characteristics, platform capabilities, business and security requirements are different per system you build and release. Although all application differ it is always good to have guidance. Guidance in the form of guidelines, practices and opinions that worked and are adopted in projects will provide a consistent, flexible and secure way of working. On GitHub an example implementation with Net Core can be found at:https://github.com/sogeti/EasyAADManager (Level 2, look at the ARM templates)Levels.Following general guidelines and common practices will help to keep systems... [More]

Just put our AAD User and Groups Manager Application on GitHub. A WebApp for end users to control AAD entries in an easy, comfortable and still controlled way. The WebApp is built with ASP Net Core 1.0, Google Material Design Lite, Azure Automation Runbooks and the AAD Graph API. The App separates responsibilities during the creation of AAD Users and Groups in two areas. The front office triggers the creation or editing of a user and assigns groups via the App. the Backoffice, AAD administrators, controls the steps and details needed for the creation of the user or group. Cloud ResourcesThe Web App uses several Cloud resources.Azure Web App, for the end user.Create, edit, delete users and gr... [More]