August 2021 - Cloud Decoded

Using Image Pull Secrets with Azure Container Registry

August 22, 2021 1 Comment

This topic may seem a bit outdated as there are better (and more recommended) ways now to work with Azure Container Registry (ACR). However, there are still many popular products in market, Sitecore in my case, which still use Image Pull Secret as the primary way to pull images from ACR. With Sitecore now supporting Container based installations, many organizations are choosing to go that way to be future proof. Sitecore has been busy updating their documentation related to installation and configuration on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and has published a great installation guide. But this article is NOT about […]

Recently I got a chance to work a lot with Azure Devops, specially with various pipelines. I was pleasantly surprised by the breadth and depth of the features provided for various ALM stages and specially for developing build and release pipelines. I liked the ease of working with YAML based pipelines and how it gets integrated with repository, allowing us to maintain all the versions along with editing from within the code editor. However, one of the most powerful feature I liked was the use of Variables, which can make pipelines really dynamic and help keep many configurable parameters out […]