Just a couple days ago, there was an announcement that Azure now supports (in public preview) AKS private clusters. This means that you can now create a cluster, where the API-server is hosted on a private IP. By default, an AKS cluster is created using a public IP for the kubernetes API server. On that […]
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Book review: Weapons of math destruction
I just spent a week of vacation in Italy. One of my good friends from college was getting married, and I didn’t want to miss his wedding. It was a good time for Kelly (my wife) and I to also take a week of vacation prior to the wedding. We love Italy, and a wedding […]
Bulk downloading Ignite sessions
Last Saturday, I stepped on a flight towards Rome with a quick layover in London. In all, I spent about 16 hours travelling. This was an excellent time for me to catch up on a couple of Ignite that I wasn’t able to catch when I was there. Microsoft has been kind enough to provide […]
Integrating your a helm blue/green deployment into a CI/CD pipeline
A while ago, I wrote about setting up a Kubernetes blue/green deployment using the service object in Kubernetes. All the work done there, was done editing yaml files and using direct kubectl commands, which you wouldn’t do in production. Later on, we updated those yaml files to Helm charts, so we can update with a […]
Setting up an Azure Automation Hybrid Worker
I am working with a customer that is going to set up an Azure Automation hybrid worker. A Hybrid Worker in Azure Automation allows you to run automation scripts on your own VMs. The benefit of this is that while the script is running, it can connect to all resources on the network it has […]