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Spot node pool limitation for AKS
Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) recently offers spot node pool feature as preview - 4/30/2020 right now. This feature enable Azure developers to reduce VM costs by using spot VMs for AKS clusters. Refer...
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Reduce AKS clusters cost by setup zero node count for user mode node pools
Here is interesting article - Release Release 2020-04-13 · Azure/AKS · GitHub. You can find that "AKS now allows User nodepools to scale to 0" in the article. This feature enables to reduce AKS cost in...
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Manage authorization for your application with user account attributes
Azure AD offers quite useful features to manage accessibilities for your applications. I believemost Azure developers has already utilized user groups to assign privilege easily, but I guess many...
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Tips to utilize Windows Server containers on AKS
Microsoft has announced that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) supports Windows Server containers as GA. This is quite useful and essential feature to containerize your ASP.NET Framework applications. In...
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Azure VMs cost reduction tips for dev and test environment
I believe Azure VMs is the most popular feature for all Azure users, and Azure VM usage would occupy most charge among your Azure billing. You will require high performance VM at the beginning because...
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Object Replication - easiest way to replicate Block BLOBs into other regions?
Object Replication is a new feature for Azure Storage. This feature enable you to transfer BLOB objects into different regions easily with minimizing latency. You might know Data redundancy - Azure...
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How to expose your endpoints exclusively by using "private endpoint" and...
I believeAzure Private LInk is really essential feature especially for enterprise customers because this feature enables to exclusively expose your Azure PaaS resources and Azure VM resources. At...
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Access Azure VMs individually through Private Link connections
I have posted about Azure Private Link both for "private endpoint" and "private link service". You can acquire knowledge how to exclusively expose your endpoints to your other VNETs and how to utilize...
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Azure NAT Gateway enables Azure VMs to access internet without assigning...
I guess some folks are not familiar with Azure NAT Gateway because this feature is quite useful but it's a little bit hard to recognize use cases. Here are my idea for Azure NAT Gateway use cases.Azure...
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Let's utlize Azure Front Door to route requests globally
Azure Front Door is useful feature to manage and monitor your web traffics with global routing. Azure Front Door enables you to manage and optimize your global(multi-regions) customers easily. I...
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Completely turn off your AKS clusters to reduce your cost!
As you might know, it was not possible to stop your AKS clusters completely because system pools are always required to be running. I have posted about this like below in...
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How to enable Azure Arc command line
Microsoft has offered Azure Arc to manage your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure, on your corporate network, or other cloud provider consistent with how you manage native Azure virtual...
View Article渡米3年たったので英語絡みの雑感アレコレ
明けましておめでとうございます。渡米してそろそろ3年ほど経った＆英語がらみのことを質問されることが非常に増えたので、所感を交えつつで自分の経験でも共有したら役に立つ人でもいるのかなと思ったのでちょっとまとめてみました。ご参考になれば幸いです。あんた誰？この節が必要な人は多分見に来ない気がしますが、シアトル本社のソフトウェア会社に勤めてます。渡米して3年半弱が過ぎ、1年半程がロサンゼルス、2年程がシア...
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シアトル内で引っ越した際の住所更新手続き＋引っ越し費用
3月頭にもともと住んでいた Bellevue downtown から車で10分くらいのところに引っ越しました。もろもろあって 1bed で手狭になったので、2bed の部屋に引っ越そうと思ったというのがモチベーションでした。住所変更で事務手続きを対応したのは以下です。渡米前は「SSN...
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Execute Azure Automation Runbooks with Managed Identity
In past, it was required to execute Runbooks on Azure Automation by using RunAsAccount, but it's still mandatory to renew a self-signed certificate - as far as I remember, it would be annual. This...
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Store passwords and secrets securely by using App Service and Azure Key Vault...
It was sometimes painful task to change settings, connection string and others depending on environment - production, QT, staging or development. It's also quite important to ensure to keep secret and...
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新型コロナ（COVID-19）のモデルナワクチン接種備忘録
昨今は日本でも大分ワクチン接種が盛んになってきたようです（2021年6月4日時点）。皆さんご存じの通り、米国側はかなりワクチン接種が進んでおり、つい先日は米国疾病予防管理センター（CDC）がワクチン接種が完了した人間はマスクを着用しなくても良いという発表をしたこともあり、マスクをしない人が日常生活ではかなり増えてきました（この CDC...
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Tips to onboard for Azure Lighthouse
Azure Lighthouse is really cool feature to retrieve all Azure resources across Azure AD tenants who have owned by your customers or departments. It's sometimes required to retrieve Azure resources...
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Tips to attach Ultra disk to Azure VMs
I believe Ultra disks are essential for mission critical workloads - SAP, Oracle DB or other high IOPS workloads. Here are some tips to attach Ultra disks for your existing VMs.Confirm availability and...
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カスタムドメイン＆BYOC で Azure Front Door を試した際のハマりどころ
その昔から Azure には Traffic Manager と呼ばれるリージョンレベルで負荷分散が行える機能がありましたが、同機能の位置づけはグローバル DNS的なものであり、WAF 的な機能、URL の書き換え、SSLオフロードといった機能を利用したい場合、リクエストをリージョンレベルに振り分けた後、リージョン単位でのサービス（Azure 組み込み機能だと Application...
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