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. […]
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Block public load balancers on Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure policy
In this post, I’ll explain to you how you can use Azure Policy to restrict the creation of load balancers with a public IP in AKS using Azure policy. Azure policy is a way to ensure your Azure deployments follow your standards. Policies are a set of restrictive rules, that control what can be deployed […]
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 […]
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 […]