The Objective This post is the second in the series to test the business continuity of an application that has a database backend. You will be deploying the sample application on Kubernetes and using SQL Server as a database. Our first test was based on Azure. Our second test is based on…

The Objective The purpose of this post is to test the business continuity of an application that has a database backend, I used an extension of the Sample Go application with a database backend that supports SQLServer as a Database. …

Purpose To document the steps required on a Java App (like SQL Developer) to successfully connect to Oracle Databases which allow only TLS connections to secure Data in Transit. As per NIST Special Publication (SP) 800–52 Rev. 2, Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations…

Services bring stability A Kubernetes Service object creates a stable network endpoint that sits in front of a set of Pods and load-balances traffic across them. You always put a Service in front of a set of Pods that do the same job (have the same container images running in them). For example…

In the early days of the Internet, information between services was shared simply by giving your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted! You should never be required to share your username and password, your credentials…

The Backstory of this blog — That day Oncaller woke up with a pager alert “Unhealthy backend hosts for the Application Gateway”. Our client has Application Gateway as the Ingress controller for the AKS cluster, so the AKS cluster is the backend in this case. That alert literally meant that the AKS application pods were down…

Introduction and Problem Statement Oracle Data Guard is one of the ways you can ensure High Availability of the oracle databases. Oracle Data Guard maintains the standby databases as copies of the primary database. …

Introduction and Prerequisites Before you begin, I would like you to go through my previous post about the same topic where I used the typical AKS-AGIC config with Istio. That post will give the background about what you are trying to achieve and why are you considering trying another approach. That config works…

Purpose When I was working on my last post on Traffic management using Istio 101, one thing which came into my mind was “Can you leverage Azure Application Gateway WAF (or GCP Armor in GCP) and other security features while not giving up on Istio service mesh features at the same…