Last week, I wrote a post about how to create a Kubernetes cluster on Azure using kubeadm. It wasn’t as hard as Kubernetes the hard way, but it took some time to get everything setup and get all the infrastructure spun up. The goal of this post is to show an easier path to get […]

Setting up Kubernetes on Azure using kubeadm
I’m studying to renew my CKA certification. Part of the CKA certification learning goals is setting up and managing a cluster with kubeadm. The goal of this post is to share how to setup a cluster with kubeadm using VMs running on Azure. The steps that are required here are: Setup Azure infrastructure Setup first […]

Using public IPs from a public IP prefix in Azure Kubernetes Service
When creating a service of type LoadBalancer in AKS, AKS will by default use a random public IP address and configure that on the AKS load balancer. You can however use a static self-managed public IP address as well. Don’t confuse this with using a public ip prefix for the outbound rule for AKS though. […]

Automatically turning on diagnostic settings using Azure Policy
Earlier today, Camila Martins joined the latest episode Unsung Heroes of the Cloud. She did an amazing job explaining how to manage Azure diagnostics settings at scale: She did such a great job explaining things, that I actually want to try out what she showed. The goal of this blog post is to explore how […]

GitHub SSO using password-protected SSH keys
There are two ways to pull/push from/to GitHub, when connecting from a remote system: either you use HTTPS or you use SSH. When connecting to a GitHub organization, the organization might have special requirements for the connection. For example, if I want to push updates to the github.com/azure organization, I need to use a password-protected […]