I am working as a consultant and software architect on different projects that focus on microservices, DevOps, and Kubernetes. Many of my consulting jobs consist of explaining microservices, why th...

For the first time in two years, I have taken some time away from my blog. This doesn’t mean that I have been lazy though. First, it was nice to take a step back and take care of my (mental) health...

Azure Arc is a great tool to manage your on-premises hardware with Azure. This series will focus on managing a Kubernetes (k3s) cluster and will show how to install Azure Arc, and how to use differ...

Using cloud technologies is amazing and makes a developer’s life so much easier. Lately, I have to work with an on-premises Kubernetes cluster and I had to realize how much work it is to do all the...

There is light at the end of the tunnel with the pandemic and therefore in person conferences and international travel is coming back. I am excited to travel to Germany and speak at the BASTA! conf...

Pods can be deleted and recreated at any time, making them a so-called nonpermanent resource in Kubernetes. Therefore, the IP address of a pod will likely change regularly. This behavior will cause...

.NET Core made it easy to configure your application. Currently, I am working on a .NET 6 console application and this showed me that especially ASP.NET MVC makes it easy to set up middleware such ...

This week I encountered the need to commit some code to a Git repository in an Azure DevOps pipeline. First, I had no idea how to could work because the repository has some branch policies and requ...

Today, many companies use cloud services, but there is also still a sizeable group of companies that can’t use cloud services for various reasons. Modern software becomes more and more complex and,...

Removing passwords and using identities to access resources is the way to go for new applications. In my last posts Use AAD Authentication for Pods running in AKS and Implement AAD Authentication t...