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…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been playing around with AKS a bit now and recently came across the ability to disable the Kubernetes dashboard in AKS using the preview extension. I am not too sure when the CLI extension will be out of preview, but I am sure the same command will work. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you use the Azure portal you may have seen some new icons in Azure. If you have not got them yet, they will be coming. You could also have a look at the preview portal https://preview.portal.azure.com. It seems some icons are not quite there yet, so be on the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes You may not know, but by default, AKS clusters are created with a service principal and that service principal has a one-year expiration time. Luckily there is an easy solution to update the credentials and this blog post is going to show you how to do it! Time to start Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute In December, myself and Gregor Suttie (aka @gregor_suttie) will be hosting the 2019 Azure Advent Calendar. The idea is that every day in December a member of the Azure community will have the chance to showcase their Azure knowledge by recording a video of 20-30 minutes in length and having it listed Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes If, like me, you are running windows containers on an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and using RabbitMQ to communicate between containers and you want to scale up and down the VMSS based on queue size, then this article is for you! Things you will need An Installation of RabbitMQ Read more…