Tag: Microsoft Azure
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Tweaking data collection for Azure Monitor for containers
Recently Microsoft introduced silently some configurations options for the Azure Monitor for containers solution. As you might know the Azure Monitor for containers solution collects stdout, stderr and environment variables from AKS and AKS-engine clusters except from containers running in the kube-system namespace. If you want to use the new feature the minimum agent version…
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Installing Helm and Azure IoT Edge on a k3s Kubernetes cluster on Raspbian
This is the third and last blog post in a series covering k3s a new Kubernetes distribution by Rancher. -> https://k3s.io/ In this post we focus on the Azure IoT Edge deployment on Kubernetes via the package manager tool Helm. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/about-iot-edge -> https://helm.sh/ The topic is divided in two parts. First about the automated…
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Updated Azure Function App – AKS Advanced Networking IP address calculation
Just a short information about the update I have done for the Azure Function App doing the AKS Advanced Networking IP address calculation (Azure CNI). Since I have written the Azure Function App, they have been some changes what limits are supported for AKS using Azure CNI networking. Minimum pods per node: 30 Maximum pods…
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SSH access to AKS nodes for troubleshooting purposes
Under normal circumstances you do not need SSH access to your AKS nodes. Even when you create a new AKS cluster you do not have to provide an admin username and a public SSH key. Deployment method admin username required? public SSH key required? Azure portal No, cannot be set No, cannot be set Azure…
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Running Linkerd on Azure Kubernetes Service
Certainly, you have heard the term service mesh in the context of Kubernetes. Istio is one of the service mesh implementations that you might have heard of mostly. Beside Istio, Linkerd is the other popular service mesh implementation for Kubernetes. In this blog post I talk about the installation of Linkerd and running it on…
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Configure Azure Traffic Manager endpoint monitoring for container applications behind an ingress controller on AKS
Running an ingress controller on Azure Kubernetes Service requires configuration of the Azure Traffic Manager endpoint monitoring options when Traffic Manager is used in front of it. In this blog post I will show you an example configuration of the Traffic Manager endpoint monitoring for a container application behind the Ambassador API gateway running on…