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...

Flex Volume 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...

Azure AD Pod Identity 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:

1. Access an Azure service supporting AAD-integration
   • Data Lake Store
   • Azure SQL DB
   • Azure Key...

Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps

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...

Azure Application Insights Role Name in web page

We discussed using Role Name to separate telemetries from different applications in a previous article.

We discuss the Nuget package I developed to set the role name for each telemetry in a backend application.

In this article I wanted to cover another element that receives little coverage: how to do that for...