AKS Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/aks/ A blog about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and more... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:08:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-logohead-32x32.png AKS Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/aks/ 32 32 Azure Container Linux for AKS: Flatcar Grows Up https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/azure-container-linux-for-aks-flatcar-grows-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=azure-container-linux-for-aks-flatcar-grows-up https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/azure-container-linux-for-aks-flatcar-grows-up/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:32:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41846 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/azure-container-linux-for-aks-flatcar-grows-up/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-57.png AKS MaxUnavailable Fallback Now in Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/aks-maxunavailable-fallback-now-in-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aks-maxunavailable-fallback-now-in-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/aks-maxunavailable-fallback-now-in-preview/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:29:34 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41842 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/aks-maxunavailable-fallback-now-in-preview/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-56.png Cert-manager on AKS, the Managed Way https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/cert-manager-on-aks-the-managed-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cert-manager-on-aks-the-managed-way https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/cert-manager-on-aks-the-managed-way/#respond Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:37:54 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41800 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/cert-manager-on-aks-the-managed-way/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-55.png AKS managedNATGatewayV2: Zone-Redundant Egress Now in Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/aks-managednatgatewayv2-zone-redundant-egress-now-in-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aks-managednatgatewayv2-zone-redundant-egress-now-in-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/aks-managednatgatewayv2-zone-redundant-egress-now-in-preview/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:36:39 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41602 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/aks-managednatgatewayv2-zone-redundant-egress-now-in-preview/feed/ 1 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-27-2026-11_33_39-AM.png Container Network Insight Agent for AKS is Now in Public Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:48:10 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41536 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/thumbnail-360-×-240-px.png AKS Cluster Health Monitor Now in Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-cluster-health-monitor-now-in-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aks-cluster-health-monitor-now-in-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-cluster-health-monitor-now-in-preview/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:59:19 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41442 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 Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-cluster-health-monitor-now-in-preview/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-54.png Azure Kubernetes Application Network Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/azure-kubernetes-application-network-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=azure-kubernetes-application-network-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/azure-kubernetes-application-network-preview/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:35 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41357 Reading Time: 8 minutesI have been waiting for something like this for a while. If you run AKS at any meaningful scale, one of the hardest problems you eventually hit is the multi-cluster networking story. How do services across clusters discover each other? How do you enforce mTLS across cluster boundaries? How do Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/azure-kubernetes-application-network-preview/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-53.png AKS App Routing Istio Support Has Landed in the CLI. Here Is How to Test It. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-app-routing-istio-support-has-landed-in-the-cli-here-is-how-to-test-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aks-app-routing-istio-support-has-landed-in-the-cli-here-is-how-to-test-it https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-app-routing-istio-support-has-landed-in-the-cli-here-is-how-to-test-it/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:19:40 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41329 Reading Time: 5 minutesI spotted something land in the Azure CLI extensions repo this week. PR #9669 adds CLI support for App Routing Istio, including new --enable-app-routing-istio flags on az aks create and az aks update, plus dedicated az aks approuting gateway istio enable and disable subcommands in the aks-preview extension. The PR Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/aks-app-routing-istio-support-has-landed-in-the-cli-here-is-how-to-test-it/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-1.png The AKS Book Is Out. Every AKS Decision That Will Save You a Cluster Rebuild. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/the-aks-book-is-out-every-aks-decision-that-will-save-you-a-cluster-rebuild/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-aks-book-is-out-every-aks-decision-that-will-save-you-a-cluster-rebuild https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/the-aks-book-is-out-every-aks-decision-that-will-save-you-a-cluster-rebuild/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:17:26 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41287 Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been running AKS clusters in production for a long time. I’ve seen the same patterns play out over and over, someone stands up a cluster, it works great in dev, and then six months later they’re rebuilding the whole thing because a networking decision made on day one turned Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/the-aks-book-is-out-every-aks-decision-that-will-save-you-a-cluster-rebuild/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-50.png Installing Envoy Gateway on AKS: Three Ways to Configure Your Gateway https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/02/installing-envoy-gateway-on-aks-three-ways-to-configure-your-gateway/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=installing-envoy-gateway-on-aks-three-ways-to-configure-your-gateway https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/02/installing-envoy-gateway-on-aks-three-ways-to-configure-your-gateway/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:48:19 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41218 Reading Time: 8 minutesAfter writing about Ingress NGINX retiring in March 2026, I recommended a two-phase migration approach. Start with Application Routing add-on for quick stability, then migrate to Envoy Gateway as the long-term strategic choice. Several readers asked for more detail on the Envoy Gateway piece, specifically around installation and the different configuration Read more

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