Reading Time: 3 minutes When 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: 3 minutes Sometimes 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…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I am currently studying for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam (CKA) and as a hands on learning I wanted to get down and dirty with Kubernetes. In my day job I work a lot with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and I would say I am very comfortable with AKS and Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At 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…
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been working on a nice simple cheat sheet to help troubleshoot issues with your Kubernetes objects. It will hopefully help you know what commands to use and when. You can find an image of it below and a link to a pdf download. Let me know what you 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: 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…