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Distributing Bicep Modules with Token-Based Access Using ACR

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:51 +0000

Reading Time: 6 minutesBicep 0.45.6 added ociEnabled, an experimental feature that routes module pulls through ORAS using Docker-style credentials instead of the Azure SDK. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. If you work at an MSP or build shared platform tooling, you will know why. You have […]

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Inspektor Gadget Is Now an AKS Extension (Preview)

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:31:37 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesMicrosoft has just shipped the Inspektor Gadget cluster extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and it is worth a look if you have ever been stuck trying to figure out why a pod is making strange DNS calls, why a process is misbehaving, or where that mysterious TCP connection is […]

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I Shipped Two Headlamp Plugins: One Checks Your Cluster, One Makes the Dashboard Look Good

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:36:08 +0000

Reading Time: 5 minutesI have been chipping away at extending KubeBuddy beyond the CLI for a while. This week I shipped two things that are genuinely useful if you run Headlamp as your Kubernetes dashboard, which you should. The first is the KubeBuddy Headlamp plugin, which brings the full KubeBuddy check catalog (excluding […]

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Azure Container Linux for AKS: Flatcar Grows Up

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:32:00 +0000

Reading Time: 5 minutesBack in November I wrote about Flatcar Container Linux landing on AKS in preview. The short version was that it was a promising immutable OS worth testing for cloud-native workloads, but rough around the edges as a preview. Well, Microsoft has now taken that foundation and turned it into something […]

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AKS MaxUnavailable Fallback Now in Preview

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:29:34 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery so often, Microsoft quietly updates an existing docs page and sneaks in a feature that solves a problem you didn’t even realise was fixable. The MaxUnavailable fallback is one of those. I picked it up through the AKS Docs Tracker I run here on pixelrobots.co.uk, which flagged a change […]

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Cert-manager on AKS, the Managed Way

Pixel Robots. — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:37:54 +0000

Reading Time: 8 minutesMicrosoft recently released a public preview of cert-manager as an Azure Arc Kubernetes extension. The docs focus entirely on Arc-enabled clusters, which makes sense given it shipped under the Arc umbrella. But I wanted to know whether it would work on a regular AKS cluster, and the short answer is […]

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AKS managedNATGatewayV2: Zone-Redundant Egress Now in Preview

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:36:39 +0000

Reading Time: 7 minutesI spotted this in the AKS release notes recently and it is worth paying attention to if you are running multi-zone clusters. Microsoft has added managedNATGatewayV2 as a new outbound type for AKS, and the key difference from the existing managedNATGateway is zone redundancy. The original option is tied to […]

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Container Network Insight Agent for AKS is Now in Public Preview

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:48:10 +0000

Reading Time: 10 minutesI spotted this one via the AKS Docs Tracker I built and run here on pixelrobots.co.uk. It picked up new docs appearing under the AKS section and this one caught my eye immediately. Microsoft has shipped a public preview of something called Container Network Insight Agent, and it is genuinely […]

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AKS Cluster Health Monitor Now in Preview

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:59:19 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesI picked this up from my AKS Docs Tracker when the docs page for Cluster Health Monitor appeared. It is currently in preview, but it is one of the more operationally interesting things Microsoft has quietly added to AKS in a while. This is not a dashboard feature. It is […]

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Azure Kubernetes Application Network Preview

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:35 +0000

Reading Time: 8 minutesI have been waiting for something like this for a while. If you run AKS at any meaningful scale, one of the hardest problems you eventually hit is the multi-cluster networking story. How do services across clusters discover each other? How do you enforce mTLS across cluster boundaries? How do […]

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