Best open source DevOps Tools and Technologies. The purpose of this article is to introduce most popular and widely used DevOps tools to build enterprise-grade cloud native applications. Container Orchestration: Kubernetes Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is the most popular open source container orchestration platform which automates the deployment, management, scaling, networking, and…

Comparison: Azure Load Balancer vs Application Gateway in Azure. TL;DR: Azure Load Balancer works with traffic at Layer 4. Application Gateway works with Layer 7 traffic, and specifically with HTTP/S (including WebSockets). Azure Application Gateway Application Gateway (AGW) is a web traffic manager for your web applications (one or multiple). With AGW, on top…

Awesome useful .NET Projects on GitHub — Most popular .NET Projects to get practical knowledge. E-Commerce nopCommerce nopCommerce is the most popular and one of the best open-source eCommerce shopping cart solution based on ASP.NET Core that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend. Using the latest Microsoft technologies…

Create and Deploy AWS EKS Cluster with Terraform. TL;DR: Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises. HashiCorp Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration…

What are Kubernetes Open Standards? — Introduction to K8s Open Standards. TL;DR: Open standards help and complement systems like Kubernetes, which is the de facto standard platform for orchestrating containers. Open Standards defines the best practices for implementing Kubernetes and play a vital role in supporting this implementation. Open standards are…

What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? — Introduction to AWS IAM. TL;DR: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides fine-grained access control across AWS accounts. With IAM, you can specify who can access which services and resources, and under which conditions. …

Introduction to Types of Probes and Configure Health Checks using Probes in Kubernetes. TL;DR: Kubernetes provides probes (health checks) to monitor and act on the state of Pods (Containers) and to make sure only healthy Pods serve traffic. …

What is Cloud Native Architecture and Application Development? — Overview of Cloud Native Architectures and Technologies. TL;DR: Cloud-native architecture and technologies are an approach to designing, constructing, and operating workloads that are built in the cloud and take full advantage of the cloud computing model. …

What is Azure Key Vault? — Introduction to Azure Key Vault. TL;DR: Azure Key Vault is a centralized cloud service for securely storing and accessing applications’ secrets. Key Vault helps you control your applications’ secrets by keeping them in a single, central location and by providing secure access, permissions control, and…