Tag: Microsoft Azure
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Local Kubernetes setup with KinD on Podman
In one of my last blog posts I walked you through the setup how to run Podman on macOS with Multipass as Docker for Desktop alternative. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/running-podman-on-macos-with-multipass/ Today I briefly show you the local Kubernetes setup with KinD on Podman. Even the Podman support of KinD is in an experimental state it runs stable…
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5 years as a Microsoft MVP
Back in July I was rewarded with the precious Microsoft MVP award in the category Microsoft Azure. It took a while to receive my MVP award disks, especially the 5 years disk. I am looking forward to my fifth award year and my upcoming speaking engagements at the Cloud Summit 2021 in September and the…
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Running Podman on macOS with Multipass
Several months ago, I worked on a little side project during my spare time but instead of writing a blog post I set it aside till today. Since the announcement that Docker made yesterday on what has changed in the Docker Subscription Service Agreement my side project got my attention again. -> https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/ For most…
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Identify the max capacity of ephemeral OS disks for Azure VM sizes
Back in 2019 Microsoft introduced the ephemeral OS disk option for Azure VMs and VMSS. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ephemeral-os-disk-now-generally-available/ Instead of storing and persisting the OS disk to the Azure remote storage the ephemeral OS disk is stored onto the VM’s cache. Hence, ephemeral OS disks are perfect for stateless workloads like Azure Kubernetes Service node pools.…
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Remove dangling container manifests from Azure Container Registry
The Azure Container Registry offers three different SKUs which differentiate from each other not only from the feature set. Each SKU comes with included storage starting at 10 GB up to 500 GB. Depending on the usage pattern the included storage fills up quickly. This can be due to a lot of different container manifests…
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Monitor the Envoy Proxy ratelimit service with Azure Monitor for containers
The last two blog posts of this series covered the setup of the Envoy Proxy ratelimit service and its implementation with Istio. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/run-the-envoy-proxy-ratelimit-service-for-istio-on-aks-with-azure-cache-for-redis/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/implement-rate-limiting-with-istio-on-azure-kubernetes-service/ In today’s post I walk you through on how to monitor the ratelimit service with Azure Monitor for containers. Not the standard monitoring of the container itself. We focus…