Reading Time: 4 minutesUpdate: This has now gone to GA and you do not need to register the preview features. 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 a development cluster. Before now, you have Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may have read my previous blog post on applying OS updates to your Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) without doing a cluster upgrade https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/05/apply-os-updates-to-aks-nodes-without-an-upgrade/. This method used kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) by weaveworks https://github.com/weaveworks/kured. This method installed some Kubernetes resources onto your cluster. This new method, which is still in Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, now most of you using Azure Kubernetes Service will probably know about node pools. If you are not too sure, then a node pool is a grouping of nodes of the same configuration. But did you know there are two different types of node pools? We have System and Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn the 9th June at 6pm BST, my Skylines Summer Session on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) goes live on YouTube. In this summer session I will be answering questions instead of asking them. Durning the summer months Skylines Acadamy are bringing you the Skylines Summer Sessions. Each week an Azure Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen creating an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, even with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) integration enabled. By default, you can still use the az aks get-credentials command with the switch –admin to gain admin access. Bypassing all the extra security you have put Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft are doing an amazing job updating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with the release on 18/05/2020 Gen 2 VM’s came into public preview. Below I am going to quickly explain what gen 2 VM’s are and the benefits and then walkthrough enabling the new feature and creating a cluster using Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesOn April 28th, 2020 Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server Container support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This has gotten me extremely excited. As you may know, if you have been following me, I have been running Windows containers in a production environment for over a year now. They Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhere I work we have been on a journey from Monolith to Microservices. I have written a blog post that some of you may like to read. I talk a bit about AKS and windows containers and some issues we came across. If you fancy a read have a look Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, what actually is keda? So, Keda or, Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler is a way for you to drive the scaling of any container in your kubernetes cluster based on a number of events (in my case messages on a RabbitMQ queue). This is achieved by two custom resources: ScaledObjects Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who manages an AKS cluster you really need to know how to troubleshoot it. Luckily Azure has your back a bit with the AKS Diagnostic tool. This tool will help you identify and resolve issues with your cluster. This is a nice little feature that comes with your Read more