in Azure If you want to prepare for the CKS exam, you’ll need a VM to learn on! Here’s I show you how to create a VM in Azure easily and ready to go. This blog is part of a series, check here the index. The Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam…

The second part of my CKS series will cover how to enable Audit policy logging for a Kubernetes cluster deployed with Kubeadm. The reference article is here Audit logging (also known as audit trail) refers to the practice of recording events and changes to a system; in the context of…

This post will collect the links to the blog posts that I’m going to write as a preparation guide for CKS. …

Cluster APIs are Kubernetes-native APIs to manage the lifecycle of clusters and nodes as CRDs. Code available at https://github.com/ams0/azure-managed-cluster-capz-helm I’ve been following the Cluster API project for some time now, but lately my interest was renewed when I find out that the cluster-api-provider-azure (sometimes abbreviated in CAPZ) now supports AKS…

Code available at https://github.com/ams0/argocd-azure-k3s-traefik Infrastructure installation Ingress installation Argo installation GitOps flow Conclusions I heard about ArgoCD many times (recently from my friends at Fullstaq) but never tried kicking its tires until now. If you don’t know, ArgoCD is a platform for declarative continuous deployment of Kubernetes applications, and it’s…

Azure is introducing support for NFSv4 for Azure Files shared volumes, we will explore how to use dynamic volume provisioning with Azure Kubernetes Service Table of content Introduction Infrastructure Azure Kubernetes Service Performance testing Conclusion Introduction NFS is a 36-years old filesystem but still extremely popular, even in this time and age of Cloud-Native-Everything…

We’ll look at how to install a Windows Server 2019 VM inside Azure Kubernetes Service running KubeVirt. We introduced Kubevirt in part 1 and 2, now it’s time to get a Windows VM up and running. Start by downloading the Windows Server 2019 iso from Microsoft (evaluation version). We will…

After the introduction to KubeVirt in part 1, we continue in this post to get to know KubeVirt in AKS by installing it and running our first VirtualMachine We look at how KubeVirt implements the objects necessary to run VirtualMachines workloads in Kubernetes in part 1, and now we’ll get…

A primer on using kubevirt to run VirtualMachines as container workloads on the Azure Kubernetes service. This first post is intended as an introduction to KubeVirt. You can read the second part here. KubeVirt is an open source project whose aim is to help running virtual machine workloads natively within…