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…

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. With help of Probes, we can control when a pod should be deemed…

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…

What is AWS Global Accelerator? — Introduction to AWS Global Accelerator. TL;DR: AWS Global Accelerator is fully managed global network traffic manager service. It is a networking service that improves the availability and performance of the applications with local or global users. It provides traffic management across multiple Regions. Key Points Global Accelerator’s…

Best practices for using Terraform. Terraform is is one of the most popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools which allows multi-cloud infrastructure management. It uses a declarative approach, meaning you define how you want infrastructure to look rather than the steps to reach that outcome. One of the other great…