41 - DevOps on Azure
In this episode, Chris is joined by Mert Yeter — software architect, Azure MVP, and Traefik Ambassador — for a live-demo-driven tour of the key DevOps building blocks on Azure.
Key topics covered:
- Azure DevOps Starter: Spinning up a complete CI/CD pipeline for a containerized .NET application in minutes — including a Git repository, build pipeline, release pipeline, and Azure Container Registry — without writing YAML from scratch
- Azure Container Registry (ACR): Storing and managing container images within the Azure ecosystem
- Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Deploying containers at different scales, from quick single-container workloads to fully orchestrated production clusters
- Traefik: A cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer that integrates natively with Kubernetes, featuring dynamic service discovery, pluggable middleware, and a built-in dashboard for monitoring cluster ingresses and service health
- Traefik Pilot and Traefik Mesh: An introduction to the broader Traefik ecosystem, including service mesh capabilities and the difference from sidecar-based approaches
Mert also highlights the value of the open-source community around projects like Traefik and encourages viewers to explore contributing via GitHub. If you want to see how quickly you can go from zero to a production-ready containerized deployment pipeline on Azure, this session is a great starting point.
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