Using Azure Container Instances to create Let’s Encrypt Certificates

You might have been confronted with the challenge that certificate management sometimes presents. Your website should be secure, but digital certificates can be expensive. Not only in terms of money, but they bring along a certain complexity too. Luckily there are two technologies that can help you to overcome both challenges: Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit … Continue reading Using Azure Container Instances to create Let’s Encrypt Certificates

Docker container with R and ODBC

If you are using R to perform statistical analysis, chances are that at least some of the data you need is stored in a database. While some databases such as SQL Server support native R scripts, others do not (for example, support for R in Azure SQL Database is in preview at the time of … Continue reading Docker container with R and ODBC

A Day in the Life of a Packet in AKS (part 2): kubenet and ingress controller

Hey again, to complete the previous post on the Azure CNI, here it goes using kubenet instead. To make it a bit more interesting we are going to explore a bunch of additional stuff: Deploying AKS with kubenet in your own vnet (note that this is not well documented or supported by Microsoft at the … Continue reading A Day in the Life of a Packet in AKS (part 2): kubenet and ingress controller

What do Cisco ACI, microsegmentation, service insertion, REST and Docker containers have in common?

Lately I have been involved in quite some conversations, where organisations have shown a lot of interest in the integration between Cisco ACI and F5 BigIP and BigIQ (or should I say iWorkflow?). As you might know, Cisco ACI offers the option to integrate L4-L7 services in the network. What does this mean? Optionally, you … Continue reading What do Cisco ACI, microsegmentation, service insertion, REST and Docker containers have in common?