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As part of the AKS cluster that I’m building for my personal development, I decided it be worthwhile installing the Dapr extension on my cluster. AKS extensions provide an Azure Resource Manager driven experience for installing and managing different services like Dapr on your cluster. Since I built my cluster using Terraform, I decided to configure the Dapr extension using Terraform as well. In this article, I’ll talk about how we can configure our AKS cluster so that we can install extensions on it, How the Dapr cluster extension works, and then I’ll explain how we can configure our Dapr extension in Terraform. ...

I’m building my own Azure Kubernetes Cluster that I can use for my personal development, and I’ve been wanting to improve my Terraform skills, so I’ve spent a bit of time over the past couple of days getting a Terraform deployment to work with GitHub Actions. The AzureRM provider has moved on a bit since I’ve used it in anger, so I learnt a lot about the different resources that are available, and how we can use GitHub Actions to deploy Terraform templates to Azure. ...

Azure Container Apps allows your apps to secure sensitive configuration values as secrets. Once you define your secrets, you can pass them as configuration to revisions of your Container Apps, and as secured values to your scale rules. In this article, I’ll discuss what secrets are, where we can define secrets, and how we can reference them in our application’s environment variables. If you want to watch a video that talks about these concepts, check out the video below! ...

In my last post on Semantic Kernel, I talked about how we interact with large language models (LLMs) through plugins that run with NLP prompts. We can also create plugins using native code. We can use our code to integrate with LLMs for calculations, data manipulation or any other functionality that our applications require. In this article, I’ll talk about how we can use native functions in the Semantic Kernel SDK, how we can create native function plugins, and how we can combine native functions with prompts. ...

When we use the Semantic Kernel SDK, we use plugins that act as the building blocks for our AI applications. Plugins essentially define the tasks that the kernel should complete, and the kernel interfaces with large language models and run the plugins we define. Plugins can include native code and natural language prompts, allowing us to use generative AI in our application. Plugins give us the flexibility of defining desired behavior in our application, and we can create custom prompt plugins to fine tune our applications precisely as we need to. ...