In some cases, you may want to create a private link for the services that you host on an AKS cluster. With private link, clients or services outside of the AKS cluster can communicate with your...
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Using Azure Private Link Service Integration on AKS
Kubernetes Secrets vs. Azure Key Vault
Here is an opinionated comparison that I created. Hope it can help you make the decision when you have to choose one.
Kubernetes SecretsAzure Key VaultHow secrets are storedStored in Etcd with...
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The Essentials of Resource Management in Kubernetes
The resource requests and limits that we set for containers in a Pod spec are the key settings that we can use to influence how Kubernetes schedule the pod and manage the computational resources,...
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Scaling with Application Gateway Ingress Controller
How Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) works is depicted in the following diagram on its document site.
AGIC Architecture
Rather than pointing the backend pool of App Gateway to a...
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Enable Virtual Node on an Existing AKS Cluster
The virtual node can be enabled when you create a new AKS cluster. There are documents talking about how to do it with either the Azure CLI or Azure Portal. Since the virtual node is an AKS add-on, ...
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Node Allocatable in AKS
Kubernetes' Node Allocatable feature allows the cluster to reserve the resources of node for system daemons of OS and Kubernetes itself. For example, when I ran kubectl describe node for a node in...
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CKAD Certified
Early this week, I took the 2nd try of the CKAD exam and passed it. I scored 89% this time despite the situation where I ran out of time and couldn't finish the last question completely. Now I am...
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Install Minikube on Ubuntu Server 17.10
I have some experiences with Docker and containers, but never played with Kubernetes before. I started to explore Kubernetes recently as I may need a container orchestration solution in the coming...
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