Yesterday, I had to privilege to attend a meetup on Istio, presented by Dan Ciruli, the PM for Istio at Google. It was a great presentation on an interesting topic; and I wanted to share my take-aways from the meetup via this blog post. What follows is (after my own introduction to the topic) mainly […]
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VNET Service Endpoints
A long awaited functionality of multiple of our PaaS services was to link them to a virtual network. At Ignite, Microsoft announced Service Endpoints. This finally met this popular request, at least for storage accounts and SQL DBs. Endpoints allow you to secure your critical Azure PaaS resources to only your virtual networks. Traffic from […]
FUSE adapter for blob storage
Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a new Linux driver into public preview: the FUSE adapter for blob storage. Obviously this is an open source driver (hosted on github). The driver allows you to mount blob storage into your VMs and read/write from blob directly. What does this mean? It is a very easy way to […]