Help wanted: Refresh articles in Azure Architecture Center (AAC)
I’m the Project Manager for architecture review boards (ARBs) in the Azure Architecture Center (AAC). We’re looking for subject matter experts to help us improve the freshness of the AAC, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) repos. This opportunity is currently limited to Microsoft employees only. As an ARB member, your main focus is to review, update, and maintain content to meet quarterly freshness targets. Your involvement directly impacts the quality, relevance, and direction of Azure Patterns & Practices content across AAC, CAF, and WAF. The content in these repos reaches almost 900,000 unique readers per month, so your time investment has a big, global impact. The expected commitment is 4-6 hours per month, including attendance at weekly or bi-weekly sync meetings. Become an ARB member to gain: Increased visibility and credibility as a subject‑matter expert by contributing to Microsoft‑authored guidance used by customers and partners worldwide. Broader internal reach and networking without changing roles or teams. Attribution on Microsoft Learn articles that you own. Opportunity to take on expanded roles over time (for example, owning a set of articles, mentoring contributors, or helping shape ARB direction). We’re recruiting new members across several ARBs. Our highest needs are in the Web ARB, Containers ARB, and Data & Analytics ARB: The Web ARB focuses on modern web application architecture on Azure—App Service and PaaS web apps, APIs and API Management, ingress and networking (Application Gateway, Front Door, DNS), security and identity, and designing for reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery. The Containers ARB focuses on containerized and Kubernetes‑based architectures—AKS design and operations, networking and ingress, security and identity, scalability, and reliability for production container platforms. The Data & Analytics ARB focuses on data platform and analytics architectures—data ingestion and integration, analytics and reporting, streaming and real‑time scenarios, data security and governance, and designing scalable, reliable data solutions on Azure. We’re also looking for people to take ownership of other articles across AAC, CAF, and WAF. These articles span many areas, including application and solution architectures, containers and compute, networking and security, governance and observability, data and integration, and reliability and operational best practices. You don’t need to know everything—deep expertise in one or two areas and an interest in keeping Azure architecture guidance accurate and current is what matters most. Please reply to this post if you’re interested in becoming an ARB member, and I’ll follow up with next steps. If you prefer, you can email me at v-jodimartis@microsoft.com. Thanks! 🙂Persistent volume with Azure Files on AKS
Based on our document, when we need to statically create persistent volume with Azure Files integration, we need to create Kubernetes Secret to store storage account name and access key. And assign the secret into PV yaml file. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-csi-files-storage-provision#create-a-kubernetes-secret However, this mechanism will allow other people that has read permission of AKS cluster to easily read the Kubernetes secret and get the storage account key. Our customer has concern about this and want to know if there was other mechanism that can prevent this risk (for example , need to fetch account key from key vault first , not directly put storage account key into Kubernetes secret)Troubleshooting applications on Windows Containers
From an IT Pro perspective, when developers start talking about Containers my first though is "How do you monitor them? Troubleshoot them? Back them up?". My IT Operations knowledge is built on having access to the operating system! Vinicius explores a few of our different tools you can use to troubleshoot applications on Windows Containers, to get access to those beloved logs and events! How to manually troubleshoot applications on Windows Containers How to troubleshoot applications on Windows Containers with the Log Monitor Tool How to troubleshoot applications on Windows Containers with the Windows Admin Center
