The Azure shared image gallery is a service in Azure that helps you manage and store images in a central location. It’s then easy to share those images with other subscriptions. It is however not that easy to share those images with other subscriptions if those subscriptions are tied to a different AAD tenant. There’s […]

Using Pulumi and Python to create a private Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
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 […]

Don’t let 80/20 time become 80/50 time
This post is part self-reflection, part sharing my story, part advice about how to manage time on extra-curricular work. The reason for me putting it together is that I had a couple of crazy weeks where I felt my 80/20 balance was at 80/50 and this was not sustainable. This led me to look for […]

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 […]

Azure Files NFS mounted on Azure Kubernetes Service
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 […]