Reading Time: 3 minutes When working with Kubernetes and secrets in particular you will know that they are not secure by default. In fact, they are just base64 encoded strings which can be easily decoded. You can use other tools to keep your secrets Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes you have an application that needs to scale super-fast, so fast that you can’t wait for a new Kubernetes node to spin up before your pods can be scheduled. Azure Kubernetes Service has a cluster auto scaler which can be Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I am currently studying for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam (CKA) and as a hands on learning I wanted to get down and dirty with Kubernetes. In my day job I work a lot with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) the AKS team announced maintenance windows are now in public preview. But for some reason they release no docs relating to it, just an arm snippet. So, I decided to do some digging. First, I Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been working on a nice simple cheat sheet to help troubleshoot issues with your Kubernetes objects. It will hopefully help you know what commands to use and when. You can find an image of it below and a Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last year’s ebook, SysAdmin Horror Stories Vol1 by Altaro, highlighted some of SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories. It proved so successful, that Altaro decided to produce a second edition this year: they’ve gathered some more real-life stories to share Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently whilst looking at the Azure portal I came across a new section on the VM blade that I have not seen before, or I have and forgot about it. This section is called Automation. Under here you have the Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you are one of the many, many IT admins who were asked to effectively transition a whole workforce to remote working overnight due to impact of COVID-19, you will no doubt also have been concerned about the security implications Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of people have been asking me for a study guide for the new Azure Exams. I started with the AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator). https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/study-resources-for-the-az-104-microsoft-certified-azure-administrator/ and then the AZ-303 (Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies) Study resources for the AZ-303 Microsoft Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Update: This does not work if you have auto scale enabled on your cluster. I am sure like me, you have at least one Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster that does not need to be on all the time, probably Read more…