A collection of 55 posts
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...
Creating a blank VM on Azure is easy, especially from the portal. Installing software and enabling features on each new VM can be time consuming, not to mention error-prone. Similar to yesterday, I will show how to install IIS on...
One of the advantages of PaaS to IaaS is how easy they are to deploy to. If you have to use IaaS, you’d still want to use Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.