Tag: Public Cloud
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Ingesting Azure Diagnostic Logs into Azure Data Explorer
In today’s blog post, we look at the Azure Diagnostic Logs and how to ingest them into Azure Data Explorer. Besides the Diagnostic Logs, we cover Activity Logs and Diagnostic Metrics as well. All three log and monitor data can be easily exported to an Azure Storage Account, an Event Hub, or a Log Analytics…
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Microsoft drops data transfer charges between Availability Zones
An important announcement during this year’s Microsoft Build has not gotten much traction and might have been missed in the vast amount of updates and announcements. Microsoft did an update to its pricing structure for inter-zone traffic. “We are announcing that Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones regardless of using…
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Cost optimize your Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server deployments
As I am currently preparing my session for Experts Live Germany about Azure Cost Optimization, I thought it might be good to share parts of the session as blog articles with the community. So, expect more to come in the next weeks and months. Today we focus on cost-optimizing Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server deployments. Therefore, we look at the…
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Using HTTP status code 307/308 for HTTPS redirect with the Istio ingress gateway
The gateway definition for the Istio ingress gateway provides a configuration parameter to enable the HTTPS redirect of HTTP connections. -> https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/networking/gateway/#ServerTLSSettings apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1 kind: Gateway metadata: name: azst-aks-gateway namespace: istio-config spec: selector: istio: ingressgateway # use Istio default gateway implementation servers: – hosts: – “*.danielstechblog.de” port: number: 80 name: http protocol: HTTP tls: httpsRedirect:…
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Fluent Bit and Kata Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
In the past, I have written two blog posts about how to run untrusted workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/running-gvisor-on-azure-kubernetes-service-for-sandboxing-containers/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/using-kata-containers-on-azure-kubernetes-service-for-sandboxing-containers/ Today, I walk you through how you gather log data of an untrusted workload isolated by Kata Containers with Fluent Bit. When you hear isolated, it always comes to mind that only…
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Running Fluent Bit on Azure Linux in Azure Kubernetes Service
In May this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Linux support in Azure Kubernetes Service. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-linux-support-in-aks/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5000119 -> https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/linux-and-open-source-blog/introducing-the-azure-linux-container-host-for-aks/ba-p/3824101?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5000119 Azure Linux is Microsoft’s Linux distribution of CBL-Mariner. -> https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner You can choose now between using Ubuntu or Azure Linux as the host operating system for your node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service,…