Reading Time: 4 minutesI spotted this land in the aks-preview extension recently. Microsoft has merged support for a control plane scaling profile into the AKS CLI, introducing what the API calls “hyperscale” control plane sizes. For the first time you can specify a Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesI picked this one up via the AKS Docs Tracker I run here. A new PR landed in the azure-aks-docs repo adding documentation for Shared Maintenance Windows, and it caught my attention straight away. If you’ve ever managed planned maintenance Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutesMicrosoft has shipped Automatic Pod Disruption Budget management for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you have ever sat watching an AKS upgrade stall because Kubernetes refused to evict a pod, this one is worth your attention. I have been on Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you have ever watched a routine cluster configuration change silently reimage your node pools mid-business-hours and wondered why you had no say in the matter, this feature is for you. Two PRs landed in the azure-cli-extensions repo recently that Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesBicep 0.45.6 added ociEnabled, an experimental feature that routes module pulls through ORAS using Docker-style credentials instead of the Azure SDK. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. If you work at an MSP or Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesMicrosoft has just shipped the Inspektor Gadget cluster extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and it is worth a look if you have ever been stuck trying to figure out why a pod is making strange DNS calls, why a Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have been chipping away at extending KubeBuddy beyond the CLI for a while. This week I shipped two things that are genuinely useful if you run Headlamp as your Kubernetes dashboard, which you should. The first is the KubeBuddy Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesBack in November I wrote about Flatcar Container Linux landing on AKS in preview. The short version was that it was a promising immutable OS worth testing for cloud-native workloads, but rough around the edges as a preview. Well, Microsoft Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery so often, Microsoft quietly updates an existing docs page and sneaks in a feature that solves a problem you didn’t even realise was fixable. The MaxUnavailable fallback is one of those. I picked it up through the AKS Docs Read more
Reading Time: 8 minutesMicrosoft recently released a public preview of cert-manager as an Azure Arc Kubernetes extension. The docs focus entirely on Arc-enabled clusters, which makes sense given it shipped under the Arc umbrella. But I wanted to know whether it would work Read more