Reading Time: < 1 minute If you are one of the many, many IT admins who were asked to effectively transition a whole workforce to remote working overnight due to impact of COVID-19, you will no doubt also have been concerned about the security implications of doing so. One of the most powerful and effective Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of people have been asking me for a study guide for the new Azure Exams. I started with the AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator). https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/study-resources-for-the-az-104-microsoft-certified-azure-administrator/ and then the AZ-303 (Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies) Study resources for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam – Pixel Robots. (pixelrobots.co.uk) and now Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Update: This has now gone to GA and you do not need to register the preview features. I am sure like me, you have at least one Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster that does not need to be on all the time, probably a development cluster. Before now, you have Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes This 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: 2 minutes The European Cloud Conference MICROSOFT AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIAL SERIES End of Summer Sale is now on! Access 8 FULL-DAY AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIALS throughout October [Levels 300-400] without having to spend time or money on travel. BOOK YOUR END OF SUMMER SALE TICKETS TODAY at the exceptional price of €195 per tutorial! This is a limited offer which ends on Monday Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute For a long time now when using Microsoft Azure Icons in your architecture diagrams it took some time to find the right ones sometimes having to use an older icon as you could not find the right one. Luckily in July 2020 Microsoft decided to release the new Azure icons Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Cloud Conference invite you to attend ‘Modernising to Cloud’ a free virtual event focused on Microsoft Azure Migration with the Experts taking place on Thursday August 20th, [10.00-12.30 CEST]. Access expert knowledge and insights which will help expedite your own organization migration planning, avoid migration pitfalls, and remove the Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day I was checking out feedspot.com‘s top Azure blogs to follow and noticed that I am now in the #4 spot, well technically #5 but the Official Azure blog is in the #1 spot, so I am not counting that. 🙂 I would like to say thank you Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have read my previous blog post on applying OS updates to your Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) without doing a cluster upgrade https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/05/apply-os-updates-to-aks-nodes-without-an-upgrade/. This method used kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) by weaveworks https://github.com/weaveworks/kured. This method installed some Kubernetes resources onto your cluster. This new method, which is still in Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, now most of you using Azure Kubernetes Service will probably know about node pools. If you are not too sure, then a node pool is a grouping of nodes of the same configuration. But did you know there are two different types of node pools? We have System and Read more…