Construct Cloud-native Purposes That Run Wherever
ICYMI (In case you missed it); two weeks in the past was Microsoft’s Construct occasion! The yearly occasion is an opportunity for builders to be taught new issues which are happening in expertise. The explanation I really like listening to a lot of these occasions is as a result of it will get you excited concerning the happenings within the business.
One of many talks that stood out to me was on the challenges that trendy builders face like needing to maneuver from idea, to code, to cloud seamlessly. Needing one of these agility, reliability, and safety is essential when attempting to resolve issues at scale. Cloud native is the power to bundle utility code and dependencies right into a container, to deploy as a microservice and handle utilizing DevOps.
< Insert sometimes CI/CD pitch right here >
A part of this discuss feels like a advertising and marketing pitch for Azure, however I feel that the underlying expertise is definitely actually thrilling. Jeff Hollan provides an excellent demo (round minute 8:25) about attacking an actual world downside. The dashboard that he builds utilized Github’s App Templates. It helps you to launch a pattern and launch a code area that automates loads of the preliminary setup of the undertaking.
“Relatively than me spending the subsequent half-hour putting in instruments and configuring my machine, as a substitute every part I would like is able to go proper right here on this codespace.” — Jeff Hollan
Azure Arc lets you deploy anyplace with out the necessity to should be taught Kubernetes and have a bunch of overhead. The mixing with Github Actions and different workflows goes to be a time saver forsure!
I extremely advocate watching this session when you have the time!