Tag: PaaS
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Learnings from the field – Running Fluent Bit on Azure Kubernetes Service – Part 1
This is the first part of a three-part series about “Learnings from the field – Running Fluent Bit on Azure Kubernetes Service”. Logging is one of the central aspects when operating Kubernetes. The easiest way to get started with it is by using the solution your cloud provider provides. On Azure, this is Azure Monitor…
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Azure Kubernetes Service – Using Kubernetes credential plugin kubelogin with Terraform
In today’s blog post we have a look at the Kubernetes credential plugin kubelogin for Azure Kubernetes Service and how to use it with Terraform. -> https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin -> https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins The Azure Kubernetes Service cluster I am using for demonstration is an AKS-managed Azure Active Directory one with local accounts disabled. Disabling the local accounts turns…
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Azure Kubernetes Service news from KubeCon North America 2022
Last week the KubeCon / CloudNativeCon North America took place in Detroit with a lot of news regarding Azure Kubernetes Service. Let us now walk through what has been announced for AKS. Microsoft further enhances the different CNI options that are available for Azure Kubernetes Service. Besides the standard of Azure CNI with Azure Network…
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Migrate an Azure storage account from LRS to ZRS replication without downtime
This is a rather short blog post about a hidden gem in the Azure documentation. You have two options today migrating an existing Azure storage account from the LRS (locally redundant storage) to ZRS (zone-redundant storage) replication option. A manual migration or live migration. Choosing the manual migration option requires a new target storage account…
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How to change the node size of the default node pool in AKS without downtime?
Currently, as of writing this blog post, Azure Kubernetes Service does not support changing the node size of the default node pool or additional node pools without recreating the whole AKS cluster or the additional node pool. Having all the configuration in infrastructure as code whether it is Bicep or Terraform seems to be a…
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Preventing SNAT port exhaustion on Azure Kubernetes Service with Virtual Network NAT
Last year I have written a blog post about detecting SNAT port exhaustion on Azure Kubernetes Service. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/detecting-snat-port-exhaustion-on-azure-kubernetes-service/ Today we dive into the topic of how to prevent SNAT port exhaustion on Azure Kubernetes Service with Virtual Network NAT. Since this year the managed NAT gateway option for Azure Kubernetes Service is generally available…