AKS

AKS Preview API lifecycle – Script to check if deprecated API versions are being used

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The post discusses an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) user’s experience with preview API retirements and shares a script to check current API versions in use. AKS preview APIs last about a year, and the script functionality includes querying the activity log for specific API versions. It generates a report detailing API usage, enabling proactive management to avoid deprecated versions and ensuring timely updates in Azure environments.

Enforcing Kubernetes best practices and simplifying Kubernetes Configuration Validation with Kube-Linter and GitHub Actions

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creenshot showing the output of Kube-linter within GitHub Code Scanning, displaying 7 issues identified by Kube-linter. The image highlights the list of opened issues, each detailing specific problems detected in the Kubernetes configurations, providing a clear overview of areas needing attention

Kubernetes is ever growing and certainly a standard for container orchestration, however with it being picked up more and more by development teams, we want to ensure best practices and correctness of Kubernetes configuration files are valid. This can be tough and challenging to manage, let’s look at a tool that can assist you in … Read more

Building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps with Kubernetes and Helm providers

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I have a few blogs now on deploying Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) with different scenarios, such as deploying AKS with Application Gateway Ingress, in this blog post I am going to be building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps. You will also have noticed in the title, it references both … Read more

A DevOps journey using Azure DevOps

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This is a workshop/lab setup that I created; it is going to take you through a DevOps journey using Azure DevOps. From setting up your pipeline to deploying an application to your Azure Kubernetes cluster! This is also my contribution to this years Festive Tech Calendar – don’t forget to check out this content, its … Read more

Creating Azure Kubernetes Service with Application Gateway Ingress using Terraform and deploying a sample app

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In this blog post I am going to show how you can deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Application Gateway Ingress using Terraform; this include Virtual Network, Log Analytics and Azure Kubernetes Service, once created – will show how to deploy a sample application into the newly created AKS cluster What is Azure Kubernetes Service … Read more

From Zero to GitOps with AKS – Azure Back to School Session

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I presented a fun session with Karl Cooke presenting our Azure Back to School session “From Zero to GitOps with AKS”, in this session we cover:- What is AKS? Azure AKS architecture (Nodes and NodePools) Benefits of AKS GitOps GitOps Tooling Flux2 Terraform Azure Pipelines Demos! I do recommend checking out the session; where we … Read more

Azure AKS aad-pod-identity Status code ‘404’ fix

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A quick blog post to show the fix I implemented in relation to receiving this error:- With the initial error of error: <nil> there wasn’t much further logging available. Here is the full output of log found under mic-* pod as part of aad-pod-identity The fix for this, is to add and deploy this .yaml … Read more