Last Week Citrix published the first public version of their Terraform Provider for Citrix ADC/NetScaler which allows us to deploy Citrix Configuration using Terraform syntax. Since I’m using Terraform for the deployment of other services as well, it makes it easy to deploy NetScaler/ADC using the same configuration syntax as Read more…
In some of my couple blog posts, I’ve been going through how to use Veeam Kasten to do backup of workloads running on Kubernetes Get started with Kasten for data protection on Azure Kubernetes Service | Marius Sandbu (msandbu.org) and how to set up Azure Arc data services to run SQL database Read more…
Prerequisites As part of Azure Arc, Microsoft will be able to provide a wide range of hybrid services. As of now in the early phases, one of the first things that Microsoft has available is Azure Arc Data Services which provides Azure SQL and PostgreSQL services on Azure Arc Enabled Read more…
One of the new capabilities that Microsoft has introduced for Azure Arc is something called Cluster Connect for Kubernetes, which allows us to securely connect to any Kubernetes cluster that is linked to Azure Arc. However this requires that your Kubernetes Cluster is already linked up to Azure Arc, which Read more…
As part of Azure Arc, Microsoft provides integration with Kubernetes to provide a couple of features. Connect Kubernetes running outside of Azure for inventory, grouping, and tagging. Deploy applications and apply configuration using GitOps-based configuration management. View and monitor your clusters using Azure Monitor for containers. Enforce threat protection using Read more…
In some customer projects now we been working with implementation of API Management in a Hub-and-spoke architecture where we also have Application Gateway as part of the design for secure exposure of services located in the different spokes and on-premises enviroments. One question that comes up often is, should I Read more…
A while back, Veeam acquired a company called Kasten, which provides backup and disaster recovery capabilities for Kubernetes. Since I’ve been working with Veeam for a while I decided to take a closer look at the capabilities and how to deploy it against Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Kasten provides direct Read more…
With the rise of organizations moving to public cloud, many also need to understand how to build and provide disaster recovery of their services outside of the public cloud vendor. Even with more of the hyperscalers now also providing new hybrid cloud services, what is the difference and what kind Read more…
A while back Palo Alto acquired a company called Red Lock (Now called Prisma Cloud) which provides a Cloud Native Security Platform. You can integrate it with Public Cloud platform such as (Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba Cloud) to get overview of Governance, Monitoring and Security of the platform. (I also Read more…
SASE …. or Secure Access Service Edge is a term coined by Gartner and is about providing the next generation of security and optimized network access for end-users. When I first starting to read about this, my first thought was, so is this Zero-Trust? but no, it is a combination Read more…