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Published inMar 2024
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Eric Chapman
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Eric Chapman

Eric Chapman holds the position of Senior Delivery and Engineering Manager at a leading retailer in home improvement and trade in Australia and New Zealand. He primarily oversees integration, encompassing platforms such as API Gateway, EventMesh, authorization systems, developer portals, and extract, transform and load (ETL) platforms. Eric leads a team with a broad range of responsibilities and skills, overseeing all business areas. Previously, Eric and his team were instrumental in designing and developing an in-house point-of-sale system. This singular application accommodated four countries' tax and auditing requirements, supported multiple payment processing gateways, and incorporated a range of unique market-leading features.
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Using the cloud for your runs

Modern software development demands efficiency and reliability, making the choice of infrastructure critical. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is one of the leaders in managed Kubernetes services. By using a cloud-hosted platform such as AKS, teams can effortlessly scale resources to match their growing workload demands, ensuring that resource allocation is efficient and cost-effective. Beyond scalability, the reliability of AKS’s built-in redundancy and high availability ensures that deployment cycles continue unhindered, even if part of the infrastructure faces challenges.

In this section, we will install ARC on our AKS instance, which we’ll create from Bicep. We’ll also bolster our security and move to a GitHub app instead of a PAT.

Setting up Kubernetes using Bicep

This section will involve deploying SSH keys for VMs, using them to power our Kubernetes cluster, which we’ll deploy using Bicep. To get us through this...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805128625

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Eric Chapman

Eric Chapman holds the position of Senior Delivery and Engineering Manager at a leading retailer in home improvement and trade in Australia and New Zealand. He primarily oversees integration, encompassing platforms such as API Gateway, EventMesh, authorization systems, developer portals, and extract, transform and load (ETL) platforms. Eric leads a team with a broad range of responsibilities and skills, overseeing all business areas. Previously, Eric and his team were instrumental in designing and developing an in-house point-of-sale system. This singular application accommodated four countries' tax and auditing requirements, supported multiple payment processing gateways, and incorporated a range of unique market-leading features.
Read more about Eric Chapman