Category: Blog
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Adversarial Simulation in Azure AI Studio
Large Language Models present a powerful enabler for various use-cases for most enterprises but without some form of due diligence and testing can spew some unintended responses. Content safety is a preventative mechanism that is used for Azure AI Studio and can also be tested with the Prompt-flow SDK. In this blog post I’ve going…
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AKS Advanced Networking Capabilities in Action
Azure Kubernetes Service has a new service that enhances observability, introducing the use Advanced Container Networking Services. This in a nutshell is a suite of services to observability in your kubernetes cluster supporting visibility from the Hubble UI and native integration of Azure Monitor + Grafana or you can Bring Your Own. This service as…
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Vertex AI Agents
Google Cloud Platform’s Vertex AI offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify the process of building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models. One of the standout features of Vertex AI is its support for Agents, which are frameworks that enable seamless integration and automation within AI workflows. In this blog post, we’ll delve…
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Defender for Containers (CWPP)
If you’re managing production-grade workloads on a major cloud platform, it’s essential to assess your security framework, particularly as you shift towards microservices and orchestration. A key yet often overlooked solution in this space is Microsoft Defender for Containers. Part of the broader Microsoft Defender for Cloud, this tool provides critical visibility and protection for…
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SpinKube WASM in Kubernetes
SpinKube is a new open-source project that is tailored to deploying WASM (WebAssembly) workloads on Kubernetes. SpinKube enhances the ability of scalability of WASM applications this tool allows integration with kubernetes primitives and use of conversion of application using the spin-plugin to make it effective conversion of YAML to interpret by the cluster and serve…
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AWS Config
Cloud operations with the control plane leverage a large amount of API’s and permissions behind the scenes abstracted from the end users. To continuously address these changes and states in your environment natively you can use AWS Config. Visually the set up for this in a simple configuration is shown below to illustrate the service…
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ABAC in AWS IAM
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) enhances identity and access management by allowing the assignment of specific conditions to authorization requests. These conditions, often referred to as attributes, include tags that can be attached to IAM resources—such as users or roles—as well as to other AWS resources. Understanding and implementing ABAC policies can be challenging, often acting…
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API Server VNET Integration
Connectivity in AKS If you’re running AKS in production you’ll likely encounter the private link scope and integration of leverage private DNS zones for putting the API server behind private IP’s rather than accessible on port 6443 or you should be doing this. But what about other options? Perhaps you’re spinning up a dev/test cluster…
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Retina by Microsoft OSS
KubeCon 2024 in Europe has recently wrapped up this past week with some major announcements from various vendors one that stood out to me is the use of Retina. Microsoft released a open-source cloud-agnostic Kubernetes Network Observability platform this can provide a path to customizable telemetry. This telemetry has multiple options on where you’d like…
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Exploring KEDA Scaling to Zero
Continuing experimentation on CNCF projects I’ve stumbled across one that is near and dear to the Microsoft Azure space since KEDA was introduced with some contributors from Microsoft and still has maintainers that are current as of this repo’s README.md. To understand further on what exactly KEDA is we start at the top of what…