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A collection of 18 posts

Enhancing Flexibility and Efficiency: "Ali Lab Next" Environment

Enhancing Flexibility and Efficiency: "Ali Lab Next" Environment

Public clouds offer virtually unlimited resources, allowing users to scale their labs up or down based on project needs. This enables teams to handle varying workloads without investing in physical infrastructure. However, in a lab environment designed for engineers to explore features and potential application uses, such scalability and flexibility

10 Jan 2025 9 min read

Navigating Cloud Security firewall

Navigating Cloud Security firewall

Insights from Our Experience with Firewalls in the Cloud

17 Dec 2024 9 min read

Enhancing Secret Management for Applications on Ali CaaS

Enhancing Secret Management for Applications on Ali CaaS

Context In applications, sensitive data like database passwords, API tokens, and other secrets need to be securely managed. Historically, secrets were embedded in configuration files as plain text, exposing them to anyone with repository access, which poses a significant security risk. Last year, we introduced SOPS, a tool for encrypting

07 Oct 2024 6 min read

Real-Time Application using Azure WebPub Sub

Real-Time Application using Azure WebPub Sub

In this article we will see how we can leverage on Azure Web PubSub to have real time communications between our frontend applications and our backend services.

01 Jul 2024 12 min read

This twisted mountain road perfectly illustrates our Cloud to Cloud automation journey

Cloud to Cloud automation with ServiceNow

Here is a short article about the recent experience of my department with automation. I will not bother you with technical details, but rather highlight key findings and points that ultimately mattered. The use case: Office 365 room management We decided to stop managing Office 365 rooms manually, and leverage

07 Nov 2023 6 min read

Responsible Business Intelligence - Secure Reporting to External Customers via Salesforce + PowerBI

Responsible Business Intelligence - Secure Reporting to External Customers via Salesforce + PowerBI

I work in the Business Intelligence and Analytics department as a full-stack architect for the Americas region. Michelin as a company is in the midst of a very important data-driven transformation. Our department is directly in the middle of it, often working to set foundational practices and approaches for the

06 Sep 2023 11 min read

VMware SD-WAN in Azure vWAN

VMware SD-WAN in Azure vWAN

Bandwith usage is increasing exponentially, especially for companies moving fast to cloud services. At Michelin we have struggled to optimize network traffic routing as our usage of cloud services has increased. Context As many Microsoft Azure clients, we dispatch our cloud workloads to several regions to improve performance and redundancy,

19 Jan 2023 4 min read

Horizon Cloud VDI - Change Subscriptions or Build New & Universal Broker

Horizon Cloud VDI - Change Subscriptions or Build New & Universal Broker

Moving our Horizon Cloud VDI from a shared subscription to a dedicated one was not going to be as simple as I thought.

20 Dec 2022 7 min read

Migrate Applications from Kafka On-Premise to Confluent Cloud

Migrate Applications from Kafka On-Premise to Confluent Cloud

Michelin introduced Kafka back in 2018 with some on-premises clusters. In my previous article, I shared how Kafka helped Michelin to learn distributed architectures as well as the complexities and difficulties we faced when managing these Kafka clusters. In this article I would like to explain how we migrated all

30 Nov 2022 9 min read

A story on how Michelin continuously modernizes its information system

A story on how Michelin continuously modernizes its information system

Introduction Over the past years, we at Michelin Group, have been trying to think about how to deeply change the way we plan, build and operate our information system to adapt to the VUCA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility,_uncertainty,_complexity_and_ambiguity] world and we have many transformations

22 Jul 2021 12 min read

Drupal on Kubernetes (a.k.a stateful application)

Drupal on Kubernetes (a.k.a stateful application)

The production implementation detail of our API portal developed on top of Drupal and hosted as a stateful application on a Kubernetes cluster.

07 Jun 2021 11 min read

Azure Private Endpoints implementation at scale // DNS deep-dive

Azure Private Endpoints implementation at scale // DNS deep-dive

The intent of this article is to explain how we deployed widely Azure Private Link on PaaS Services and how we tackled the DNS part of this technology, both for on-premise and Azure machines/workstations. Azure Private Link Azure Private Link [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/private-link/private-link-overview] is

18 May 2021 7 min read

Kubernetes Vanilla @ Michelin - Why? How?

Kubernetes Vanilla @ Michelin - Why? How?

This article will retrace Michelin journey around containers and container-orchestration (Kubernetes) systems over the last 3 years. We believe that this feedback is interesting because we made strong choices from both a technical and an operational point of views. First things first, why have Michelin invested efforts on such technologies?

19 Apr 2021 10 min read

Cloud Management Gateway connectivity - A case study

Cloud Management Gateway connectivity - A case study

For my first post here I will be going through a recent case (not so much anymore but hey, that is life !) we spent time on, last Summer. Hopefully you will find it interesting. Abstract (aka "I have no time, tell me what I need to know") : always

01 Apr 2021 7 min read

Managing Gitlab instance on Azure

Managing Gitlab instance on Azure

Details about our Gitlab architecture and deployment process mainly based on Azure managed services with databases, cache and file storage.

25 Mar 2021 6 min read

From Kafka to Delta Lake using Apache Spark Structured Streaming

From Kafka to Delta Lake using Apache Spark Structured Streaming

Using Spark Structured Streaming to consume Avro events from Kafka and consolidate them with Delta Lake format on Azure Data Lake Storage

16 Feb 2021 7 min read

Azure ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways coexisting - Conditional routing for web-surfing to third party solution

Azure ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways coexisting - Conditional routing for web-surfing to third party solution

Context Azure implementation at Michelin follows Microsoft recommendations: we have several virtual Data Centers (vDC) in different regions connected to our "on-premises" network through Express Route. In terms of network topology, we leverage the traditional hub and spoke model: The vast majority of the workload are Virtual Machines

08 Feb 2021 6 min read

Azure Network Insights with Traffic Analytics

Azure Network Insights with Traffic Analytics

Within Michelin, we have connections from several geographic points to Azure regions, through Express Route circuits. An important requirement from our Network and Security teams is the capability to inspect and analyze the network traffic between all our assets. We already had visibility of network traffic between "on-premise"

21 Jul 2020 4 min read

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