Backing up AKS clusters is really important. Even if you’re using Infrastructure as Code and all deployments are automated, you will benefit from taking backups of AKS clusters. It’s also stated as a best-practice by Microsoft.
Today, it’s possible to stop the virtual machine scale set (vmss) driving an AKS cluster. You can do this in many ways, including the Azure CLI. In this post, I’ll guide you through running an Azure CLI script to stop...
Microsoft does download and install security patches automatically and transparently on AKS worker nodes. But, by design it’s your responsibility to restart them. Once you do so, these patches will take effect. So it’s really important that you do so...
This is a bit of a miscellaneous post. I’ve had some trouble making my copy/paste work on a Ubuntu VM and hopefully it will help someone.
Last week, I got the great news that I passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrators (CKA) exam. A few months ago, I had passed the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. I found both exams to be challenging, yet fun and...
Pipeline variables in Azure DevOps YAML pipelines get mapped to environment variables in the pipeline agent. With Terraform, if there’s an environment variable that starts with TF_VAR_ it will get mapped to an input variable. Combining the two can mean...
