Carlos Mendible is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft who writes in-depth, hands-on guides about Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Generative AI, focusing on real-world cloud automation and architecture.
161 articles from this blog
A developer details using GitHub Copilot's plan and agent modes to refactor the Azure Quick Review tool, eliminating technical debt and improving performance.
A guide to using the azqr openai-throttling plugin to diagnose and analyze HTTP 429 throttling errors in Azure OpenAI deployments.
Explains Azure availability zone mapping risks and how to use the azqr tool to verify physical datacenter mappings for HA/DR.
A technical tutorial on deploying Azure AI Foundry integrated with Bing Grounding using Terraform for infrastructure as code.
A technical guide on enabling Node Autoprovisioning (NAP) for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using a custom VNET, with Terraform code examples.
A technical guide on creating custom evaluators for Generative AI applications using the Azure AI Evaluation SDK and Azure AI Foundry.
A technical guide on deploying Chaos Mesh, a chaos engineering platform, onto an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
A technical guide on installing the Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform configuration.
A technical guide on installing Azure Service Operator on an AKS cluster using Terraform, including provider configuration and resource definitions.
A guide to automating Azure Quick Review (azqr) scans using a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow for continuous cloud resource assessment.
A guide to installing and configuring the lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy server, tinyproxy, on Ubuntu for domain filtering.
A technical guide on changing the control plane IP address in a Kubernetes cluster managed by kubeadm, including an automation script.
A technical guide on configuring a Static Egress Gateway for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using Terraform and the azapi provider.
A technical guide on deploying an Azure Function using the new Flex Consumption plan with VNet Integration, provisioned via Terraform.
A technical tutorial on enabling Node Autoprovisioning (NAP) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform and the azapi provider.
An overview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic SKU, detailing its pre-configured, production-ready setup and deployment methods.
Guide to setting up Workload Identity in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform to enable Azure CLI login from pods.
Introduces Azure Quick Review (azqr), an open-source CLI tool for scanning Azure resources and generating compliance reports.
A tutorial on creating an HTTP-triggered Azure Function using a custom handler written in the Go (Golang) programming language.
A technical guide on simulating spot node eviction in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to test application resiliency, using Terraform for deployment.
