Understanding multiple Ingress in AKS

Last time, I covered the ins and outs of Ingress on AKS.

We looked at how to install nginx ingress controller and how the controller is deployed as a load balanced service. We did some URL based routing and domain name overloading.

This was in the spirit of clarifying the magic...

Understanding simple HTTP Ingress in AKS

We looked at Kubernetes Ingress conceptually. We looked at different use cases: URL based routing and multiple domains.

We also looked at how ingress was implemented from an AKS perspective, i.e. where traffic was routed in nodes.

In this article, I wanted to get hands on. I figured we could start...

Azure DevOps - Task output to a variable

I’ve been building a couple of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines on Azure DevOps lately.

Azure DevOps is formerly known as Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). As I mentioned recently, VSTS had nothing to do with Visual Studio and we’re very happy with the new brand name.

With...

Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS - Parametrized values

In the last article, we authored a very simple chart.

In this article I want to show how to use one of the powerful features of Helm: values.

Values act as parameters to a chart.

Having parameters is key for dev ops as we want to deploy the same chart to different...

Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS - Getting started

As we discussed in our last article, Helm is a great technology. I recommend using it not only to manage third party packages but also your own custom-developed solutions.

But how do you author a Helm Chart?

I found that question hard to answer. The common answer is “look at existing ones”....