Koushik's Blog on Open Source on Azure

Step by step: Set up a Docker host on Azure using CLI on a Mac

After I published my architectural discussion on how to scale a simple dockerized Apache-PHP...

Date: 12/11/2016

Scaling a LAMP app using Docker Containers - simple code and architectural discussion

As the journey to the cloud and containerization continues, and the quest to scale and leverage...

Date: 12/10/2016

Ansible on Red Hat on Microsoft Azure: Deploy Apache Web App with Mysql back-end

Introduction After the Microsoft - Red Hat alliance, engineering teams from both sides are working...

Date: 05/27/2016

Thoughts on Azure Stack and Multi-Cloud Strategy

What is Azure Stack? Is it truly Azure-In-A-Box? Why should one use it? You know that it makes...

Date: 02/15/2016

Open Source on Azure - What we achieved together

As we transitioned to 2016, we can look back at the closing months of 2015 with pride and happiness...

Date: 02/02/2016

Set up and use Docker Swarm on Azure

As Docker dominates as the hot containerization topic, the focus is starting to shift from just...

Date: 12/06/2015

An often overlooked trick to get better disk performance from your Azure Linux VM

This may sound obvious to many - my apologies to that section of my audience. However, as I engage...

Date: 11/19/2015

Set up a MySQL IaaS NDB cluster with 4 nodes on Azure Linux

Introduction In an earlier blog post, I wrote about setting up a MySQL single server instance on...

Date: 10/26/2015

MySQL performance benchmark on Azure Linux: OS disk (ext4) vs RAID 0 array (xfs)

Introduction In an earlier blog post, I wrote about how we can configure an Azure Linux (Ubuntu) VM...

Date: 10/24/2015

Set up Azure Ubuntu VM with XFS on RAID

Summary: If you are running applications like MySQL / MongoDB / Cassandra / Kafka or any other...

Date: 10/15/2015

Step by Step: Set up Docker on Azure, Connect to Nginx container from Windows

Level: Easy Objective of Tutorial: Set up a Docker Server on an Ubuntu VM running on Azure Set up a...

Date: 09/26/2015

Choosing between Azure Event Hub and Kafka: What you need to know

Any organization/ architect/ technology decision maker that wants to set up a massively scalable...

Date: 08/08/2015