Testing outbound connections in AKS-Kubenet and ACI

What happens if a pod in AKS initiates a connection with a private endpoint? Which private IP address does the outbound connection uses?

This is relevant for a private IP inside the same VNET, a peered VNET or an IP accessible via a VPN or Express Route.

In general, the private IP of the...

AKS Auto Scaler with ARM Template

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...

Creating a Backup Solution for Cosmos DB using change feed

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...

My JSON gets serialized in a string - Logic Apps

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....

Network Policies with Calico in AKS

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...