Reading Time: 5 minutes As I work more with Containers and Azure Container Registry the more potential I see. In fact just the other day I was noticing that the list of images in my ACR was growing quickly. The list was getting huge. Now, this might be OK for some people, but I Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, 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: 2 minutes Microsoft Azure Certifications Explained – A Deep Dive for IT Professionals in 2020 It’s common knowledge, or at least should be, that certifications are the most effective way for IT professionals to climb the career ladder and it’s only getting more important in an increasingly competitive professional marketplace. Similarly, cloud-based Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes As 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…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So hopefully you have seen my previous blog (Create Azure AD Server and Client apps using Azure CLI for an AKS deployment) where I created two Azure AD applications that are needed to create an AKS cluster with Azure AD integration. Below I will go through the steps you will Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you have seen some of my previous blog post about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) then you will have noticed that I always build my AKS cluster with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) integration. I.e. an Azure AD Server and Client Application. This helps me manage access to my cluster Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I created my AKS cluster about a year ago. Back then container insights was not a thing. Now it is and it’s so good and makes life a bit easier. But at first, I was unable to use it I kept getting an error. After some googling, I came across Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been using AKS for a while now, maybe a year or so and recently I have needed the ability to auto-scale the cluster. Unfortunately, my old AKS cluster was one that used availability sets and not Node Pools (VMSS) which meant I was not able to auto-scale the Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have seen a previous post of mine about VMSS scaling based on RabbitMQ queue size using logic apps. If not you can read about it at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/scale-an-azure-vmss-based-on-rabbitmq-queue-size-using-an-azure-logic-app/. Well I have been thinking wouldn’t it be good to get the queue size, amount of messages and the VMSS node Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Azure Advent Calendar kicks off on December 1st through to December 25th this year. For people taking part (entry is now closed – apologies) we have set up a YouTube Channel to host your entries on your behalf, we will send you back the YouTube link once we have uploaded and scheduled the video. For participants, please Read more…