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  • Design and Deploy a Highly Available Node js Web app to AWS

    Intro Recently I made a blog post regarding migration of PostgresDB to Amazon RDS. This was in fact something I had to do during a personal AWS project that utilised postgresDB. In this article I will try to go over the entire project in more detail. The project is a simple online node web app

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  • Migrate Local Postgres DB to Amazon RDS Instance

    Introduction Recently I was experimenting with creating an application on AWS. To keep things simple I chose PostgreSQL as my database and starting working on the database on my local PC. As part of the migration stage to AWS I was faced with two choices with regards to the Postgres database, either recreate the database

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  • Monitor AKS Cluster with Azure Managed Prometheus/Grafana

    Overeview In this short article I will discuss this relatively new Azure service that provides a managed instance of Prometheus and Grafana to monitor AKS clusters. Traditionally platform engineers install and set up Prometheus on the clusters they’d like to monitor by using helm on it’s own namespace then set up all the Prometheus collector

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  • Auto Start/Shutdown AKS Clusters Using Python

    The contents of this article are solely my own work. You are welcome to share, reuse and incorporate it’s contents in other publications so long as due credit is provided. Overview It is no secret that we can use Azure Automation Accounts to automate tasks in Azure using runbooks and schedules. In this scenario we intend

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  • Automated Sentinel Reports via Azure Logic Apps

    The contents of this article are solely my own work. You are welcome to share, reuse and incorporate it’s contents in other publications so long as due credit is provided. Overview Producing a comprehensive security report at the end of each month is one of the expectations of any good security team. One data that

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  • Auto Export IIS Server Logs to Azure Blob Containers

    The contents of this article are solely my own work. You are welcome to share, reuse and incorporate it’s contents in other publications so long as due credit is provided. Overview If your application is hosted on an IIS web server within a virtual machine, you might receive requests to either archive the logs externally

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  • Deploy AKS Cluster Using Terraform & Azure DevOps

    The contents of this article are solely my own work. You are welcome to share, reuse and incorporate it’s contents in other publications so long as due credit is provided. Overview In one of the previous articles I discussed the creation and deployment of a simple containerized Python flask app to an AKS cluster. As part

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  • Create and Deploy a Simple Flask App to Azure Kubernetes Service

    The contents of this article are solely my own work. You are welcome to share, reuse and incorporate it’s contents in other publications so long as due credit is provided. Introduction The purpose of this article is to demonstrate from the first step, the creation and deployment of a simple containerized Python flask app to

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