Microsoft Ignite After Party 2025 - Azure Infrastructure for Cloud Native Solutions

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1. Azure Infrastructure for Cloud Native Solutions Microsoft Ignite After Party 2025-12-13
2. Karn Wong Loves optimization Has too much fun cranking out benchmarks HashiCorp Ambassador & AWS Community Builder Website: karnwong.me Independent Consultant
3. Main Keywords Infrastructure Cloud Native
4. Infrastructure Compute Storage Networking
5. Cloud Native Public, private and hybrid clouds Microservices Containers Orchestration https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/cloud-native-apps
6. There Was Time Before Cloud Native
7. Application Anatomy Data Tier Database Storage App Excluding networking layer
8. Bare Metal Setup Setup VPC + firewalls Spin up VM Install runtime Clone source code + copy env & config Build app Setup systemd service (*some use tmux) Start service Excluding database setup
9. Post-Deployment Operations Monitoring Logging Alerting CI/CD
10. 🐘 The Elephants in the Room Reproducibility Load balancing Autoscaling Auto-healing Zero-downtime upgrade Rollbacks
11. Cloud Native Walkthrough
12. Microservices Databases Microservices Service A Service B Service C Database 1 Database 2 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microservice-applications/
13. Containers Can run anywhere Frozen app version and dependencies https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/category/containers/
14. Container Orchestration What you’ll get out of the box Monitoring Logging Load balancing Autoscaling Auto-healing Zero-downtime upgrade Rollbacks ⎈ Kubernetes / Azure Kubernetes Service / Azure Container Apps
15. Why Cloud Native?
16. Modernization Better performance Better security Less maintenance Can be drastically cheaper!!
17. Cloud Native AI Scalability Resilience Rapid innovation Solutions vLLM Ray KServe
18. Cloud Native FinOps https://karnwong.me/posts/2023/04/cost-optimization-with-kubernetes/
19. Cloud Native Services on Azure Function as a Service Azure Functions Containers as a Service Azure Container Apps Kubernetes Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Red Hat OpenShift
20. Thank you 🙏 Download slides at: karnwong.me