Daniel's Tech Blog

Cloud Computing, Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Tag: PaaS

  • Terraform – Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with multiple node pools

    UPDATE: Checkout the new blog post covering AKS multiple node pools in Terraform Azure provider version 1.37. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/terraform-working-with-aks-multiple-node-pools-in-tf-azure-provider-version-1-37/ The multiple node pool feature for AKS is currently in preview. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-multiple-node-pools Multiple node pools enable us to define a different amount of worker nodes, a different VM size or even that the nodes in…

  • Pin Terraform version in Azure Cloud Shell

    When you cannot always work with the latest Terraform version for you Infrastructure as Code deployments and need to stick to a specific one like 0.12.10 for instance, then you should continue reading. The Azure Cloud Shell is Microsoft’s CLI as a Service offering in Azure and provides you with a browser-based interface that is…

  • Disable the Kubernetes dashboard on Azure Kubernetes Service

    A recently introduced change enables the capability to disable the Kubernetes dashboard on an AKS cluster. This is achieved by providing the Kubernetes dashboard as an AKS add-on like the Azure Monitor for containers integration, AKS virtual nodes or the HTTP application routing. I stumbled over that capability in the Terraform Azure provider documentation for…

  • Custom naming support for AKS node resource group available

    When you deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster in Azure a second resource group gets created for the worker nodes. Per default the resource group has the following naming schema MC_resourcegroupname_clustername_location. In most cases this naming schema collides with a naming convention already in place for the company’s Azure environment. A common question since AKS…

  • Optimize build performance on Jenkins Azure worker nodes

    Today we focus on some performance optimizations for the Jenkins worker nodes on Azure instead of security as in the last blog post. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/secure-jenkins-worker-nodes-on-azure/ As you might know already each Azure VM gets an additional SSD-based temporary drive beside the OS disk drive. Per default the swap file is stored on this temporary drive,…

  • AKS VMSS base image update script – multiple node pool support

    At the beginning of September, I have published a blog post about how to update the base image of a VMSS-based AKS cluster. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/updating-the-base-image-of-a-vmss-based-aks-cluster/ On LinkedIn I had a good discussion with one of the AKS PMs about that and I want to highlight two things first. The shell script I have written directly…

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