Reading Time: 5 minutesHello, cloud enthusiasts! Today, I’m super excited to share some hot news straight from KubeCon North America 2023 and Microsoft Ignite 2023 – a fresh feature in Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) called Artifact Streaming. If you’re all about optimizing your container setup and speeding up Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s set the scene. You deployed the NGINX ingress controller a while ago onto an AKS cluster by following the Microsoft Docs https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/ingress-basic and now need to update the nginx ingress controller but add a new configuration. If you read the doc page, you will notice the helm command is Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou read the title right my new book “Azure Containers Explained” co-authored with Wesley Haakman and published by Packt is out now! In this blog post, we will explore what readers can expect from your book and why it is worth checking out. Containers have become a popular way of Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis 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: < 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: 3 minutesIf like me you are using Azure Container Registry (ACR) to store your container images you may want to scan them for vulnerabilities. Now you can thanks to the Azure Security Centre standard tier. In this blog post, I will show you how to go about setting up your Azure 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 minutesI 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: 4 minutesIn this article, I am going to walk through the process of using Azure Container Registry (ACR) tasks to automate building Docker container images when you commit source code to a git repository. By doing this you can save yourself a lot of time. Prerequisites So you will need to Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is currently in preview On Friday 17th May 2019 Microsoft announced the support for Windows Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This is something I have personally been waiting for. Below you will find a guide on adding a simple IIS server running on a Windows core container to Read more