Tag: Update
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Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager – Advance your Kubernetes cluster update management on Azure
The Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager comes with two different configuration options with and without a hub cluster configuration. In today’s blog post, we focus on the Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager without a hub cluster configuration. This configuration option only provides the Azure Kubernetes Service update management, and this is our focus for today, Before we…
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Keeping your ACS Engine Kubernetes cluster on Azure up-to-date
It is quite simple to keep a Kubernetes cluster created by ACS Engine on Azure up-to-date, because the master and agent nodes are configured by default to automatically apply security patches on a nightly schedule. But you need a solution like Kured to automatically reboot the agent nodes in the cluster, so the security patches…
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Keeping your AKS – Managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure up-to-date
It is quite simple to keep an AKS – Managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure up-to-date, because Microsoft automatically applies security patches to the nodes on a nightly schedule as described in the AKS FAQ on the Azure documentation page. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/faq#are-security-updates-applied-to-aks-agent-nodes But you need a solution like Kured to automatically reboot the nodes in the…
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Link summary for guidance for mitigation and protection from Spectre and Meltdown on Windows Server, Hyper-V and Azure
From a security perspective the new year has started with a big bang. If you have lost the traction where you get the necessary information for guidance for mitigation and protection from Spectre and Meltdown on Windows Server, Hyper-V, and Azure, then have a look at the following link summary. Windows Server in general: Windows…
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Deploy the update management solution through an Azure Resource Manager template
In my last blog article, I talked about the update management solution in Azure and what the capabilities are. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/keeping-azure-vms-date-update-management-solution/ Today we will have a look on how to deploy the update management solution through an Azure Resource Manager template. All what we need is to define the following Azure services in the template.…
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Keeping your Azure VMs up-to-date with the update management solution
Based on the Azure services Log Analytics and Azure Automation you can use three new capabilities in the Azure portal for your Azure VMs: inventory, change tracking, and update management. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/update-management-inventory-and-change-tracking-are-available-in-azure-automation/ In this blog article I will talk about the update management solution. If you are familiar with Log Analytics and its former update…