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
Guide to disabling local accounts on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters using Terraform for improved security and auditability.
A guide to securing Node.js and .NET APIs using Azure Active Directory, covering Terraform setup, JWT validation, and a PowerShell test client.
A technical guide on testing automatic failover for a zone-redundant Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server using Terraform.
A technical guide on testing failover for a zone-redundant Azure Cache for Redis instance using Terraform and redis-cli.
A step-by-step guide to resizing a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) for a managed premium disk in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Explains how to implement traffic access control between microservices using Open Service Mesh (OSM) on AKS, following SMI specifications.
A tutorial on deploying Open Service Mesh (OSM) with mTLS on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform for secure microservice communication.
A guide to deploying a high-availability storage solution using Rook and Ceph on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Terraform.
A technical guide on using Azure Monitor and Container Insights to identify AKS pods missing resource requests and limits via KQL queries.
A technical guide on deploying a static website to Azure Storage with Private Endpoint security using Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
A technical guide on deploying a cost-optimized Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with Windows node pools using spot VMs and ephemeral disks.
Guide to deploying Azure Files Storage with a Private Endpoint and using it for Persistent Volume Claims in an AKS cluster.
A guide to planning IP address allocation for Azure Kubernetes Service clusters using Azure CNI networking, including a calculation tool.
Learn how to build resilient, event-driven microservices using .NET and Dapr to overcome common distributed system challenges.
A technical guide on installing and running the lightweight Kubernetes distribution k3s within WSL2 on an ARM64 Surface Pro X device.
A tutorial on deploying Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Kubecost for cost monitoring using Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
A tutorial on deploying a private Azure Cloud Shell environment within a Virtual Network using Terraform for secure access to internal resources.
A tutorial on implementing OpenTelemetry logging in ASP.NET Core applications for improved observability and trace correlation.
A tutorial on using Dapr with .NET 5 to read secrets from local files and environment variables for development.
A developer shares lessons from Hacktoberfest 2020, including contributions to Azure Arc, K8Spin, and Dapr, and discusses the event's challenges.
