Tag: Container
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Azure Kubernetes Service – Microsoft Ignite announcements
At this year’s first digital Microsoft Ignite conference Microsoft announced several GA and preview features for its Azure Kubernetes Service. GA: Azure Policy add-on for AKS GA: Ubuntu 18.04 as new base image GA: Mutate default storage class Preview: Azure RBAC for Kubernetes authorization Preview: AKS cluster start/stop feature Preview: Kubernetes 1.19 support Preview: New…
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Using distroless images in Istio on Azure Kubernetes Service
Looking at Docker Hub Istio provides the option using distroless images since version 1.3.0. As it is always a good idea on a Kubernetes cluster to reduce the attack surface, especially when running a managed Kubernetes cluster like Azure Kubernetes Service, using distroless images is one option of it. Per default Istio does not use…
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Running Istio on KinD – Kubernetes in Docker
In my last blog post I have shown you my local Kubernetes setup with KinD. I mentioned also Istio and today we walk through the configuration to get it running on Kubernetes in Docker. As prerequisite I recommend reading my previous blog post before you continue with this one. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/local-kubernetes-setup-with-kind/ I made a configuration…
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Local Kubernetes setup with KinD
Getting started with Kubernetes these days is easy and does not require to be in the lucky position having access to a cloud provider subscription for playing around with managed Kubernetes like AKS, EKS or GKE. All you need is your local machine. But then you must choose which one of the available offerings you…
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Upgrading the node image of an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Last year I have written a shell script to update the VMSS base image of an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/updating-the-base-image-of-a-vmss-based-aks-cluster/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/aks-vmss-base-image-update-script-multiple-node-pool-support/ As I am using the VMSS API and not the AKS API it was not an officially supported way to update the VMSS base image. But on the other hand, it…
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Using Azure Policy for Kubernetes
In my last blog post I mentioned that the next topic is about Azure Policy in combination with Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. I decided to write about Azure Policy for Kubernetes instead covering Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. As Azure Policy for Kubernetes is based on the Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper implementation,…