Azure Kubernetes Service

In this post, I want to guide you on how you can configure the Azure firewall as a security check for all your outbound traffic. This configuration will make sure the remote services that your pod wants to interact with. …

In the realm of cloud-native applications, adopting a brownfield deployment approach can be an effective strategy for modernizing existing applications and infrastructure. Brownfield deployment involves incorporating cloud-native components into an already established environment, allowing organizations to leverage the benefits of cloud technologies while preserving their existing investments. One crucial aspect…

Using Kubernetes in Azure environment is made easy with this article… Introduction: Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform that provides scalability, automation, and management of containerized applications. Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, offers robust support for Kubernetes, allowing you to easily deploy and manage your applications in a scalable and…

To set up Ingress in K8S, you need to configure an Ingress controller. These do not come as default with the cluster and must be installed separately. An ingress controller is typically a reverse web proxy server implementation in the cluster.There are many available Ingress controllers, all of which have…

Small introduction to Service Mesh: “A Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable” Ref: https://linkerd.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-why-do-i-need-one/ I will add to this great definition also operational observability and ability to provide different traffic scenarios. Sidecar or Sidecar-less? There are variety of service mesh solutions…

For those who wants to read first part of this series of articles: A Deep Dive into Azure Kubernetes Service and Istio Ambient for sidecar-less microservices… Small introduction to Service Mesh:medium.com Now we can start exposing our microservices (firstly with TLS termination passthrough on pod and secondly on Istio Ingress Gateway): I will deploy Kubernetes UI dashboard based on instructions provided in portal.

Azure services used: Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Cloud Shell | Other Tools used: Docker, Redis, Python Flask, Notes In another project based on a real world scenario, I had to act as a DevOps Engineer, and show a new team member how to deploy an…

One fine day, when I was dealing with my Monday blues while working on my day-to-day activities, my boss came up with a task to check if there is a way to run the Kubernetes pods/nodes on a local machine (like how we use self-hosted agents instead of Microsoft hosted…

Deploy a simple docker image in AKS — The more I learn about Kubernetes, the more I fell in love with it. After a year of using Kubernetes(k8s) on Azure, I decided to pen down some important use cases and FAQs that one generally comes across when starting deployment on Kubernetes. This series assumes the reader has basic…