Monthly Archives: October 2017

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Germany via acs-engine

Currently the Azure Container Service is not available in one of the regions of Azure Germany, that supports you creating an Kubernetes cluster in an easy way. But do not be afraid. There is a handy tool called the Azure Container Service Engine or short acs-engine available on GitHub to generate the necessary ARM templates for you. -> https://github.com/Azure/acs-engine To start with Read more [...]

Monitoring Azure B-series VM banked credits

In mid-September Microsoft announced the new B-series VM size. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-b-series-our-new-burstable-vm-size/ Have a look at the following description to understand how the B-series VMs are working. The B-series burstable VMs are ideal for workloads that do not need the full performance of the CPU continuously, like web servers, small databases and Read more [...]

Microsoft Ignite session recording of Azure IaaS design and performance considerations: Best practices and learnings from the field available

I am back from an awesome Microsoft Ignite in Orlando. If you missed my session at Microsoft Ignite or you were not able to attend the conference in Orlando, have a look at the Microsoft Ignite YouTube Channel where nearly all sessions are published now. Here is my session about Azure IaaS design and performance considerations: Best practices and learnings from the field. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hoIHXQTSbo The Read more [...]