Tag: Container
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Taking backups from Azure Disks attached to AKS via Azure Automation
When you followed the Azure docs on how to dynamically create Azure Disks via a Kubernetes PVC, you saw the instructions to create a backup of the disk. Snapshots are leveraged for this. But it is a manual task you must accomplish. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-disks-dynamic-pv#back-up-a-persistent-volume It would be nice to have an automated solution which also…
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Stream Analytics on IoT Edge – deployment changes
Microsoft released the GA version of Stream Analytics on IoT Edge two weeks ago. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-stream-analytics-on-iot-edge-now-generally-available/ Beside the changes with the GA version one is most important. When you deploy the Stream Analytics container onto an edge device you must provide the plan id as an environment variable. The plan id is needed for billing…
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Best practices – Azure IoT Edge deployments with Azure Kubernetes Service
Today I am talking about some best practices in regards of Azure IoT Edge deployments with Azure Kubernetes Service. Just a short recap about the IoT Edge deployment options with Kubernetes. The connection between Kubernetes and the Azure IoT Hub is established via the IoT Edge Virtual Kubelet Provider. The IoT Edge VK Provider consists…
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Azure Functions – Azure Kubernetes Service Advanced Networking IP address calculation
Lately I was playing around with Azure Functions especially the HTTP Trigger Function and was seeking for a good use case of a Function taking JSON input and providing JSON as output. Looking at a certain task you need to do before you can deploy AKS with Advanced Networking enabled. I had found my use…
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Kubernetes network policies on Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure NPM
Microsoft provides an own network policy module to implement Kubernetes network policies with the Azure CNI plugin for acs-engine and AKS called Azure NPM. -> https://github.com/Azure/azure-container-networking/tree/master/npm The Azure NPM is available since quite some time for acs-engine and natively integrated, but not yet for AKS. If you want to use Azure NPM on Azure Kubernetes…
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Using dysk in Azure Kubernetes Service – AKS cluster upgrade and its learnings from it
In one of my previous blog posts I have explained how to use dysk in Azure Kubernetes Service as persistent storage option. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/using-dysk-in-azure-kubernetes-service-as-persistent-storage-option/ Today we have a look how a Kubernetes version upgrade of an AKS cluster effects dysk in operations and may force you to rethink your chosen Azure VM and OS disk…