Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an…

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By Dustin Ward

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How the Bottlerocket build system works

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow the Bottlerocket build system works Bottlerocket is an open source, special-purpose operating system designed for hosting Linux containers, which was launched in 2020. As I delved into the Bottlerocket build system for a deeper understanding, I found it helpful to describe the system in detail (a form of rubber-duck debugging). This article is…

4 reasons customers are asking service partners for Azure Lighthouse

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Sonia Cuff, Senior Cloud Advocate Azure With an increasingly complex security landscape and an ever-growing service partner portfolio, how do you stay on top of industry-standard best practices? As your business needs grow, you employ more and more partners to support your infrastructure, network, apps, and employees, but with…