I am doing some work with a customer around mounting Azure Files using NFS in an AKS cluster. In this blog post, I’m summarizing how to achieve this! In many applications, you need to have access to some shared files. There’s a couple of ways of setting this up. In Linux a common approach to […]
Category: Azure
Trying out the preview of Azure Active Directory pod-managed identities in Azure Kubernetes Service
Using managed identities in Azure is recommended when you’re connecting to other Azure services (and even your own services if you’re implementing authentication). In the Kubernetes world, Microsoft has maintained an open-source project called AAD-pod-identity. Recently, a managed and supported version of AAD pod identity for AKS was released in public preview. In this post, […]
Getting started with Kubernetes: learning resources
In the past week, I’ve had two separate people reach out to me about how to get started with learning Kubernetes. I thought I’d put my thoughts together in a blog post here, so everybody can benefit from this. Starter resources for Kubernetes To start learning Kubernetes, I highly recommend the following resources: Introduction to […]
Customize core dump in Azure Kubernetes
A core dump is a common way to get information about process crashes. It saves the memory state, which can later be used for troubleshooting purposes. Being able to perform a core dump in Kubernetes is a little bit more involved than on a regular system. You will need to configure the Kubernetes hosts in […]
Running Windows containers on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Containers and Kubernetes have traditionally been the area of Linux-based workloads. However, things have changed. Windows has supported Docker containers for a while now, and since Kubernetes 1.14, Windows support has been generally available in Kubernetes as well. In this blog post, we’ll explore how you can add Windows nodes to a Kubernetes cluster running […]