Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server: Failover Test
Sunday, November 28, 2021 in 2021
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Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server allows configuring high availability with automatic failover. With Zone-redundant HA your service has redundancy of infrastructure across multiple availability zones. Zone-redundant HA is preferred when you …
Azure Cache for Redis: Failover Test
Sunday, November 21, 2021 in 2021
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Azure Cache for Redis supports zone redundancy in its Premium and Enterprise tiers. A zone-redundant cache runs on VMs spread across multiple Availability Zones. It provides higher resilience and availability. Today I’ll show hot to test the …
AKS: Resize Private Volume Claim to expand a Managed Premium Disk
Monday, November 15, 2021 in 2021
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If you deployed a private volume claim using the managed-premium storage class, then ran out of space and now you are searching how to expand the disk to a larger disk, this is how you can do it from scratch: manage-premium storage class is a premium …
AKS: Open Service Mesh Traffic Access Control
Tuesday, November 09, 2021 in 2021
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4 minute read
In my previous post AKS: Open Service Mesh & mTLS, I described how to deploy an AKS cluster with Open Service Mesh enabled, and how: Easy is to onboard applications onto the mesh by enabling automatic sidecar injection of Envoy proxy. OSM enables …
AKS: Open Service Mesh & mTLS
Monday, November 08, 2021 in 2021
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Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh, easy to install and configure and with features as mTLS to secure your microservice environments. Now that Open Service Mesh (OSM) integration with Azure Kubernetes …
AKS: High Available Storage with Rook and Ceph
Saturday, October 23, 2021 in 2021
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Disclaimer: this is just a Proof of Concept. If you deploy Azure Kubernetes Service clusters with availability zones, you’ll probaly need a high available storage solution. In such situation you may use Azure Files as an external storage …
AKS: Container Insights Pod Requests and Limits
Friday, October 15, 2021 in 2021
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Today I’ll show you how to use Container Insights and Azure Monitor to check your AKS cluster for pods without requests and limits. You’ll need to use the following tables and fields: KubePodInventory: Table that stores kubernetes …
Static website hosting in an Azure Storage Account protected with Private Endpoint
Friday, September 17, 2021 in 2021
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This post will show you how to deploy a Static Website on a Storage Account protected with Private Endpoint using Terraform: Define the terraform providers to use Create a providers.tf file with the following contents: terraform { required_version = …
AKS: Windows node pool with spot virtual machines and ephemeral disks
Monday, September 13, 2021 in 2021
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Some months ago a customer asked me if there was a way to deploy a Windows node pool with spot virtual machines and ephemeral disks in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The idea was to create a cluster that could be used to run Windows batch workloads …
AKS: Persistent Volume Claim with an Azure File Storage protected with a Private Endpoint
Monday, August 02, 2021 in 2021
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4 minute read
This post will show you the steps you’ll have to take to deploy an Azure Files Storage with a Private Endpoint and use it to create volumes for an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster: Create a bicep file to declare the Azure resources You’ll …