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.
164 articles from this blog
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.
A tutorial on using the Tfe.NetClient library to manage Terraform Cloud infrastructure from a .NET Core console application.
A technical guide on configuring an Azure Function's Blob Trigger to securely connect to a Storage Account using a Private Endpoint and VNet Integration.
Explores secure credential management in Azure using Managed Identities to avoid storing secrets in code or configuration.
A technical guide on configuring an NGINX Ingress Controller with Dapr sidecar injection in Kubernetes for exposing Dapr-enabled applications.
A tutorial on using Dapr with .NET Core to securely read and access Kubernetes secrets within a microservices application.
A tutorial on debugging .NET Core applications integrated with Dapr using Visual Studio Code, including configuration steps.
A tutorial on deploying MongoDB in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using the MongoDB Enterprise Operator and Ops Manager.
Explores secure credential management for cloud apps using Azure Managed Identities to avoid hardcoded secrets in code and source control.
A guide to setting up a Visual Studio Code Remote Container for Jekyll development, isolating Ruby and Jekyll dependencies.
Guide to securely access Azure Key Vault secrets from AKS pods using AAD Pod Identity without explicit credentials.
A tutorial on implementing GitOps for deploying applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using the Flux tool.
A guide on using Kured, a Kubernetes Reboot Daemon, to automatically restart Azure Kubernetes Service nodes after security patches.
A guide to setting up a Visual Studio Code remote development container for Azure Blockchain and Ethereum smart contract development.
A guide to creating a VS Code Remote Container development environment for Azure and Ansible projects.
A tutorial on scaling Kubernetes deployments programmatically using a .NET Core API and the KubernetesClient library.
An ARM template to enable the Container Monitoring Solution on an existing Azure Log Analytics Workspace.
Guide to deploying the Global Azure Bootcamp Science Lab planet discovery workload in a Kubernetes cluster using provided YAML configuration.
