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: 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…
Reading Time: < 1 minute On the 9th June at 6pm BST, my Skylines Summer Session on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) goes live on YouTube. In this summer session I will be answering questions instead of asking them. Durning the summer months Skylines Acadamy are bringing you the Skylines Summer Sessions. Each week an Azure Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutes On April 28th, 2020 Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server Container support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This has gotten me extremely excited. As you may know, if you have been following me, I have been running Windows containers in a production environment for over a year now. They Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, you want to secure access to the kubernetes API server on your AKS cluster? Lucky for you that’s what this blog post is about. But first, why would you want to? The answer to that has to be security. By default, the Kubernetes API to manage your cluster is Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, what actually is keda? So, Keda or, Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler is a way for you to drive the scaling of any container in your kubernetes cluster based on a number of events (in my case messages on a RabbitMQ queue). This is achieved by two custom resources: ScaledObjects Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes As 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 minutes So 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 minutes If 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: 2 minutes I 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…