Month: November 2019
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Terraform – Working with AKS multiple node pools in TF Azure provider version 1.37
On Tuesday this week the Terraform Azure provider version 1.37 was released and brings some changes regarding AKS multiple node pools support. Multiple node pools are now fully supported in Terraform with their own resource azurerm_kubernetes_cluster_node_pool. First, let us talk about the changes to the resource azurerm_kubernetes_cluster before getting to the azurerm_kubernetes_cluster_node_pool resource. In the…
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Working with Windows Server node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service
Back in May Microsoft released the public preview of Windows Server support for Azure Kubernetes Service. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-windows-server-containers-support-in-azure-kubernetes-service/ When you are starting with Windows Server node pools in AKS you should at least be aware of some prerequisites and limitations. Windows Server node pools require Azure CNI alias AKS Advanced Networking The first node pool…
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Azure Resource Manager templates – Deploy an AKS cluster with multiple node pools
This week the multiple node pool feature for Azure Kubernetes Service went GA. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/support-for-multiple-node-pools-in-azure-kubernetes-service-is-now-available/ Today we walk through the steps to deploy multiple AKS node pools with Azure Resource Manager templates. Looking at the ARM template reference for AKS, node pools get defined in the managedClusters resource and additional node pools with an agentPools…
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Speaking at Azure Saturday Cologne
After a break of nearly five months from public speaking I am back on stage since October. The last public speaking engagement was in May at the European Collaboration Summit in Wiesbaden. Then in October I presented the topic “Terraform on Azure” at the Azure Meetup Bonn hosted by LeanIX. The next event I am…
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Terraform – Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with multiple node pools
UPDATE: Checkout the new blog post covering AKS multiple node pools in Terraform Azure provider version 1.37. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/terraform-working-with-aks-multiple-node-pools-in-tf-azure-provider-version-1-37/ The multiple node pool feature for AKS is currently in preview. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-multiple-node-pools Multiple node pools enable us to define a different amount of worker nodes, a different VM size or even that the nodes in…