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 the wrong side of it more than once. AKS starts […]
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 bring a new preview capability to the aks-preview CLI extension. […]
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 process is misbehaving, or where that mysterious TCP connection is […]
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 has now taken that foundation and turned it into something […]
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 Tracker I run here on pixelrobots.co.uk, which flagged a change […]
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 on a regular AKS cluster, and the short answer is […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesI spotted this in the AKS release notes recently and it is worth paying attention to if you are running multi-zone clusters. Microsoft has added managedNATGatewayV2 as a new outbound type for AKS, and the key difference from the existing managedNATGateway is zone redundancy. The original option is tied to […]
Reading Time: 10 minutesI spotted this one via the AKS Docs Tracker I built and run here on pixelrobots.co.uk. It picked up new docs appearing under the AKS section and this one caught my eye immediately. Microsoft has shipped a public preview of something called Container Network Insight Agent, and it is genuinely […]
About this tracker This tool keeps an eye on Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AKS Arc, Kubernetes Fleet Manager documentation, Azure Container Registry (ACR), and Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC). AKS everywhere! It also shows the last 5 release notes from AKS. It automatically scans for changes, then uses […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesI picked this up from my AKS Docs Tracker when the docs page for Cluster Health Monitor appeared. It is currently in preview, but it is one of the more operationally interesting things Microsoft has quietly added to AKS in a while. This is not a dashboard feature. It is […]