Reading Time: < 1 minute For a long time now when using Microsoft Azure Icons in your architecture diagrams it took some time to find the right ones sometimes having to use an older icon as you could not find the right one. Luckily in July 2020 Microsoft decided to release the new Azure icons Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day I was checking out feedspot.com‘s top Azure blogs to follow and noticed that I am now in the #4 spot, well technically #5 but the Official Azure blog is in the #1 spot, so I am not counting that. 🙂 I would like to say thank you Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes You 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 minutes So, 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 minute On 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 minutes When 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 minutes Microsoft 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 minutes On 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 minute Recently I was approached by Microsoft specialist recruiter, Nigel Frank International, about contributing my insight to their Azure industry whitepaper. The resource contains invaluable Covid-19 related advice for businesses and professionals, provided by myself and a number of my fellow Azure MVP’s. The whitepaper is split into five topics, in Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Where 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…