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Disable local user account (–admin) in Azure Kubernetes Service

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

By Pixel Robots., 5 years ago June 18, 2021

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The hands-on Kubernetes on Azure book has been updated for 2021!

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

By Pixel Robots., 5 years ago May 5, 2021

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): How to change Windows node pool password

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

By Pixel Robots., 5 years ago April 30, 2021

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): How to over-provision node pools

Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes you have an application that needs to scale super-fast, so fast that you can’t wait for a new Kubernetes node to spin up before your pods can be scheduled. Azure Kubernetes Service has a cluster auto scaler which can be enabled on cluster build or added after. This is awesome, Read more

By Pixel Robots., 5 years ago March 12, 2021

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First look at Maintenance Windows on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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

By Pixel Robots., 6 years ago March 5, 2021

Automation

Stop and Start an Azure Virtual Machine – The new way

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently whilst looking at the Azure portal I came across a new section on the VM blade that I have not seen before, or I have and forgot about it. This section is called Automation. Under here you have the option to export the arm template for your virtual machine, Read more

By Pixel Robots., 6 years ago October 5, 2020

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Study guide for the AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 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

By Pixel Robots., 6 years ago September 30, 2020

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The official way to Stop and Start your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster

Reading Time: 4 minutesUpdate: 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

By Pixel Robots., 6 years ago August 26, 2021

Azure

How to build an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Managed Azure Active Directory Integration

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

By Pixel Robots., 6 years ago August 25, 2020