Containers Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/containers/ A blog about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and more... Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:57:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-logohead-32x32.png Containers Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/containers/ 32 32 Flatcar Container Linux on AKS: First Look https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2025/11/flatcar-container-linux-on-aks-first-look/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flatcar-container-linux-on-aks-first-look https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2025/11/flatcar-container-linux-on-aks-first-look/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=40736 Reading Time: 6 minutesRecently I spotted something new in the AKS CLI preview. Flatcar showed up as a valid OS SKU for Linux node pools. As someone who’s been running AKS clusters for years, I was curious to see what this CNCF-backed immutable OS brings to the table, so I spun up a Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2025/11/flatcar-container-linux-on-aks-first-look/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-46.png First Look: Artifact Streaming in preview for ACR and AKS https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/11/first-look-artifact-streaming-in-preview-for-acr-and-aks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-look-artifact-streaming-in-preview-for-acr-and-aks https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/11/first-look-artifact-streaming-in-preview-for-acr-and-aks/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:15:11 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=39735 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/11/first-look-artifact-streaming-in-preview-for-acr-and-aks/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thumbnail-360-×-240-px-5.png Finding out what values were used on a deployed helm chart https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/finding-out-what-values-were-used-on-a-deployed-helm-chart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-out-what-values-were-used-on-a-deployed-helm-chart https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/finding-out-what-values-were-used-on-a-deployed-helm-chart/#respond Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:37:48 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=39453 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/finding-out-what-values-were-used-on-a-deployed-helm-chart/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GitOps-360-×-240-px-3.png My new book. Azure Containers Explained is out now! https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/my-new-book-azure-containers-explained-is-out-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-new-book-azure-containers-explained-is-out-now https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/my-new-book-azure-containers-explained-is-out-now/#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:35:45 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=39265 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/03/my-new-book-azure-containers-explained-is-out-now/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GitOps-360-×-240-px-2.png How to build an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Managed Azure Active Directory Integration https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/09/how-to-build-an-azure-kubernetes-cluster-using-managed-azure-active-directory-integration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-build-an-azure-kubernetes-cluster-using-managed-azure-active-directory-integration https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/09/how-to-build-an-azure-kubernetes-cluster-using-managed-azure-active-directory-integration/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=37557 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/09/how-to-build-an-azure-kubernetes-cluster-using-managed-azure-active-directory-integration/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AKS-Cluster-using-Managed-Azure-AD-Integration.png Read about my journey from Monolith to Microservices https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/read-about-my-journey-from-monolith-to-microservices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=read-about-my-journey-from-monolith-to-microservices https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/read-about-my-journey-from-monolith-to-microservices/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:01:02 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=37319 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/read-about-my-journey-from-monolith-to-microservices/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Microservices-1.png Scan your Azure Container Registry container images with Azure Security Centre https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/scan-your-azure-container-registry-container-images-with-azure-security-centre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scan-your-azure-container-registry-container-images-with-azure-security-centre https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/scan-your-azure-container-registry-container-images-with-azure-security-centre/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:50:29 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=37267 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/04/scan-your-azure-container-registry-container-images-with-azure-security-centre/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Scan-Container-Images-Using-Azure-Security-Centre.png What is Keda and how do I deploy it? https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/what-is-keda-and-how-do-i-deploy-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-keda-and-how-do-i-deploy-it https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/what-is-keda-and-how-do-i-deploy-it/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:30:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=36994 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/what-is-keda-and-how-do-i-deploy-it/feed/ 1 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/What-is.png How to fix Authentication issues with container insights live data on an Azure AD protected AKS cluster https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-fix-authentication-issues-with-container-insights-live-data-on-an-azure-ad-protected-aks-cluster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-fix-authentication-issues-with-container-insights-live-data-on-an-azure-ad-protected-aks-cluster https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-fix-authentication-issues-with-container-insights-live-data-on-an-azure-ad-protected-aks-cluster/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:25:00 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=36929 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-fix-authentication-issues-with-container-insights-live-data-on-an-azure-ad-protected-aks-cluster/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Quick-Fix-Container-insights-Live-Logs-on-Azure-AKS-1.png Automatically create container images using Azure Container Registry Tasks https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/automatically-create-container-images-using-azure-container-registry-tasks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=automatically-create-container-images-using-azure-container-registry-tasks https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/automatically-create-container-images-using-azure-container-registry-tasks/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:15:11 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=34011 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

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