Reading Time: 3 minutes When working with Kubernetes and secrets in particular you will know that they are not secure by default. In fact, they are just base64 encoded strings which can be easily decoded. You can use other tools to keep your secrets safe and then allow Kubernetes to access them. In this Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes you have an application that needs to scale super-fast, so fast that you can’t wait for a new Kubernetes node to spin up before your pods can be scheduled. Azure Kubernetes Service has a cluster auto scaler which can be enabled on cluster build or added after. This is awesome, Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) the AKS team announced maintenance windows are now in public preview. But for some reason they release no docs relating to it, just an arm snippet. So, I decided to do some digging. First, I looked for the aks-preview az cli extension on GitHub to Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently whilst looking at the Azure portal I came across a new section on the VM blade that I have not seen before, or I have and forgot about it. This section is called Automation. Under here you have the option to export the arm template for your virtual machine, Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of people have been asking me for a study guide for the new Azure Exams. I started with the AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator). https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/study-resources-for-the-az-104-microsoft-certified-azure-administrator/ and then the AZ-303 (Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies) Study resources for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam – Pixel Robots. (pixelrobots.co.uk) and now Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Update: This does not work if you have auto scale enabled on your cluster. 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 been able to Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog post is part of a series of blog posts for Azure Back to school https://azurebacktoschool.tech by Dwayne Natwick. For the whole of September different community members will be creating a blog post or video to about Azure. Mine as you can tell from the heading is about Azure Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Cloud Conference MICROSOFT AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIAL SERIES End of Summer Sale is now on! Access 8 FULL-DAY AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIALS throughout October [Levels 300-400] without having to spend time or money on travel. BOOK YOUR END OF SUMMER SALE TICKETS TODAY at the exceptional price of €195 per tutorial! This is a limited offer which ends on Monday Read more…
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…