Reading Time: 3 minutesFor as long as I remember AKS has only officially supported two CNI’s, Kubenet and Azure CNI. That is until 2nd April 2022 when they announced the ability to create an AKS cluster with no CNI. This means you can deploy any CNI you would like. In this blog post Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf, like me, you’ve been using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for a while, you have probably heard of AKS addons. You may have even installed some. But do you actually know how they get updated and whose responsibility it is to do the updates. In this article I’m going to Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe other day someone reached out to me via LinkedIn and asked is it possible to have a Kubernetes deployment deploy on to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) node pool first and when the node pool is full burst to Azure Container Instances (ACI), or virtual nodes in AKS. Looking Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesRecently I have been going through the AKS-Preview az cli extension and found reference to a GitOps AKS addon. I have been waiting for something like this to come to AKS for a long time. In fact, it is already available for ARC enabled Kubernetes clusters. Below I will go Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf like me, you have been working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or any Kubernetes cluster and want to assign a DNS record to an ingress resource you must manually do it or script something using Azure CLI. Yes, I have done this, and it sort of works. But now Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesDid you know that even when you have enabled Azure AD integration with your AKS cluster, a subscription Owner and Contributor can still access you AKS cluster with the -admin switch? In fact, anyone who is a member of the Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster Admin Role (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles#azure-kubernetes-service-cluster-admin-role) can. You were Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the last few months or so I have had the pleasure of tech reviewing the “Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure” third edition book by Packt Publishing. This edition has so much more than the previous books. In fact, it has gone from just over 300 pages to over 500! What’s Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith release 2021-04-22 of AKS you can now Update your Windows node passwords via the CLI. Before this update you were unable to. This can be super annoying as you can set the node pools up without specifying passwords. So, if you needed to login to the node for any Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen 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: 2 minutesAt 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