Rahul Rai

Dynamic Admission Control in AKS with Azure Functions

AKS, Azure, Functions /

Controlling resource deployments in your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster can quickly become quite challenging. For instance, pushing a change to the production environment might introduce undesirable vulnerabilities to the application. By creating custom admission webhooks for Kubernetes, we can define custom policies that regulate the deployment of resources to our cluster. The Kubernetes ecosystem is not […]

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Cheapskate’s Journey to On-Demand Load Tests on Heroku with Locust

Azure, Docker, Software Development, VS Code /

I want to stretch every dollar that I spend on the cloud. I run a handful of web applications on Heroku, and like everyone else, run a suite of smoke tests and load tests on every release increment in a non-production environment. Load tests are important: they help us not only to understand the limits

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Using Startup Command to Pass Command Line Arguments to Azure App Service for Linux

App service, Azure, Containers, Docker, Software Development /

Azure App Service on Linux has several prefabricated Docker images that support applications written in languages such as .NET core, PHP, and Node.js. App Service also supports using your own Docker image to spin up a container for your application. A useful configuration feature of App Service on Linux is the Startup File configuration that you can set as part of

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VS Code Remote Development with Docker Compose: Developing services in Standalone and Integrated Modes

Containers, Docker, Software Development, VS Code /

VS Code remote development is a brilliant feature from the VS Code team. Using the extensions available in the VS Code remote extension pack, you can develop your applications in an external development environment viz. a remote server (through SSH), containers, and WSL. The premise of the three modes of development is the same. The application code

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