Monthly Archives: January 2020

Install a high available Istio control plane on Azure Kubernetes Service

Lately I worked intensively with Istio and focused especially on the topic high availability of the Istio control plane. When you install Istio with the default profile, as mentioned in the Istio documentation, you get a non-high available control plane. istioctl manifest apply \ --set values.global.mtls.enabled=true \ --set values.global.controlPlaneSecurityEnabled=true Per default Istio gets Read more [...]

Check cluster manageability with Azure Kubernetes Service Diagnostics

It does not matter if your AKS cluster is running without any issues or you currently experiencing issues, you should run Azure Kubernetes Service Diagnostics on a regular base. But what is Azure Kubernetes Service Diagnostics? Let me give you a quick introduction. AKS Diagnostics is a functionality in the Azure portal which provides you with the capability to run a self-diagnosis against your Read more [...]