Microsoft Whiteboard anyone?

Introduction

Ever heard of the app “Microsoft Whiteboard’? No?!? If you carry whiteboard markers around in your backpack like me, and you really like white boarding, then you should definitely check it out!

So a whole post about a white-boarding app? Yep… Though wait till you see the cool features it can do! 😉

Unified monitoring view in Kubernetes : Linking infrastructure monitoring with application monitoring

Introduction

Typically you notice that there are two dimensions / viewpoints when it comes to monitoring. On one side there is a team that wants to view everything related to the “infrastructure”, like for instance the kubernetes cluster. On the other hand, there is the typical application performance monitoring that starts from the application side. Sadly enough, in a lot of cases, those two are separated islands… 😦

 

As you might know, on the Azure front you can do Application Performance Monitoring with Application Insights and there is like a really awesome integration with Azure Monitor (“Log Analytics”) from the container space (kubernetes). Though I see you thinking it… Two separate solutions. Though, what a lot of people forget, is that they are actually using “Log Analytics” under the hood. And… That you can query across workspaces in Log Analytics! Which means that you can join the two and have an aggregated view to span both worlds.

 

Let’s take a look!

For this test, I’ve created a k8s cluster which is linked to a separate log analytics work-space. Where next to it, there is an application (Azure Function) inside of a docker container that is linked to Application Insights.

 

Test driving the newly announced Visual Studio Online

Introduction

This week Ignite kicked off with a series of announcements (as always). One of those was “Visual Studio Online“…

 

In my eagerness I wanted to test drive it and check out what the developer experience would be, and if it could replace my development station in Azure.  So let’s delve into it shall we?

Improving the security & compatibility aspects of package management with native GitHub features

Introduction

Did you know almost every piece of software depends on OpenSource? Not sure… What libraries is your software using? Bingo! 😉

Now we all know that package management can be a true hell. Tracking everything and ensure you are up-to-date to achieve the needed security level is hard. Next to that, there is always the risk that your build will break to moving to a library version.

What if we could enhance that flow a bit? You guessed it… Today’s post will be around how we can leverage native GitHub features to help us in this area!

 

Let’s hit the slopes!

For this walk-through, we’ll use the following ;

• an existing code repository, where we’ve forked CoreUI’s VueJS repo
• GitHub’s actions to run a workflow on every pull request
• GitHub’s automated security feature that will send pull requests to us when it detects security issues

Want to test this one out or follow along? Browse to the following sample repository ; https://github.com/beluxappdev/CoreUI-VueJS-GitHubSecurityDemo

So let’s fork this sample repository!