Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Auto Scaler is finally out there in public preview! The online documentation does a great job of getting us started. In this article I wanted to get it a little further with two things. First by showing how to use ARM templates to deploy an AKS Cluster with Auto Scaler on. … More AKS Auto Scaler with ARM Template
Cosmos DB is Azure native NoSQL database. It has awesome capabilities such as global-distribution, exceptionally high availability, throughput scalability, and much, much more. As with most NoSQL horizontally scalable databases it doesn’t have the same backup capabilities as mainstream RDBMS systems. Cosmos DB has an automated backup capability. It is always there and doesn’t affect … More Creating a Backup Solution for Cosmos DB using change feed
Azure Logic Apps is a powerful tool. It takes care of long running tasks, retries, bunch of integrations, etc . . It also handles JSON payloads natively. JSON flows in and out of an app. I recently faced a bit of a problem with JSON though. My JSON was appearing serialized within a string. It … More My JSON gets serialized in a string – Logic Apps
Calico network plugin is finally supported within Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). There is a very good tutorial on the online documentation, so we won’t give a walkthrough here. Instead we will highlight a couple of points about Network Policies in general and in AKS. Online references On top of the aforementioned AKS tutorial, we recommend … More Network Policies with Calico in AKS
I wanted to start looking at a few modules helping integrate AKS with the rest of Azure. In a past article, we looked at Pod Identity. This time around, we will look at Flex Volume. Flex Volume is an integration between AKS and Key Vault. It allows keys, secrets & certificates (the three main objects … More Flex Volume in AKS
I wanted to start looking at a few modules helping integrate AKS with the rest of Azure. A big integration point is identity. For many reasons, we’ll want our pods to use service principal identities: Access an Azure service supporting AAD-integration Data Lake Store Azure SQL DB Azure Key Vault Many more… Access Azure Resource … More Azure AD Pod Identity in AKS
Azure Key Vault is a great service to manage secrets, keys & certificates. It uses RBAC to control access. Like all access control system, there is a chain of access. For instance, my user account has access to the vault: this means if my account’s credentials get leaked, the access to the vault is compromised. … More Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps
