Pulumi is a somewhat new kid on the infrastructure-as-code block. I’ve been looking for an opportunity to work with Pulumi for a while, and a recent customer engagement caused me to investigate it in a bit more detail. This led me to create this post, exploring how to create a private AKS cluster and a […]
Category: Open Source
Key Vault CSI driver integrated with AAD-managed pod identities
Tomorrow I’m joining the 425 show on Twitch for a discussion on AAD-managed pod identities and how to integrate them with Key Vault. This blog post is both a sneak preview of what we’ll be discussing tomorrow as well as a review of the episode if you want to study things more in-depth after it […]
How to run your own admission controller on Kubernetes
I’ve done some work with a customer lately, where I helped them build a mutating admission controller on Kubernetes. The goal of this blog post is to explain what admission controllers are and how to deploy them on Kubernetes. To keep the content of the post manageable, the development of the admission controller itself is […]
How to connect GitHub Codespaces to a local Visual Studio Code
I’m a huge fan of GitHub Codespaces. Codespaces deliver a fully powered and customizable Visual Studio Code (VS Code) instance in the browser. I’ve started using Codespaces recently to do my Covid analysis. It’s a great tool because I don’t need to install anything locally, I can simply use Codespaces straight from the browser. Codespaces […]
Creating Windows Azure Container Instances using the Virtual Kubelet from the Azure Kubernetes Service
I am working with a customer that is looking to deploy Windows containers from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to Azure Container Instances (ACI) nodes. In this blog post, I’ll explain how this can be done. We’ll start with a quick why somebody would want to do this, how this can be done and then transition […]