Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who manages an AKS cluster you really need to know how to troubleshoot it. Luckily Azure has your back a bit with the AKS Diagnostic tool. This tool will help you identify and resolve issues with your cluster. This is a nice little feature that comes with your Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo hopefully you have seen my previous blog (Create Azure AD Server and Client apps using Azure CLI for an AKS deployment) where I created two Azure AD applications that are needed to create an AKS cluster with Azure AD integration. Below I will go through the steps you will Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf 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 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: 3 minutesI 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 minutesYou 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 minuteThe 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 minutesI 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 minuteIf 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 minutesYou 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! Note: You will Read more