Introduction In this article, we’re going to take the AKS Diagnose & Solve Problems Feature (which is only currently available to view via the AKS UI) and create a kubernetes addon, which will expose all this good health information from your AKS clusters via logs & metrics. …

Introduction In the previous section we looked at a real world example of SRE, best practices for reliability and troubleshooting and mitigation. …

Introduction In the previous section, we set the scene of what SRE is, what an SRE does and the principles of SRE. In this section, we’ll look at a real world example of SRE, best practices for reliability and troubleshooting and mitigation. SRE Practices Example in the Real World Ok enough with the Theory, show me an example…

Overview In this 3 part series of articles we’re going to have a look at what SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) or Production Engineering is, what an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) does, principles of SRE, a real world example of SRE practices in practice and then we’ll look at some other best…

Introduction In this article, we’re going to show how we could use a GSLB (Global Server Load Balancer) like Azure Traffic Manager or AVI to provide regional high availability for our AKS workloads using an active active fail-over strategy. In previous articles we’ve exposed our workloads at a regional level and…

Introduction In a recent azure ansible article I wrote (https://adrianhynes.medium.com/orchestrating-azure-resources-with-ansible-fa82f4e3dfd6), I came across a challenge, whereby listing resources in a resource group wasn’t real-time. In that article I improvised by waiting and checking every minute until the resources eventually appeared. BUT that loop and sleep took ~20 minutes. It turns out…

Intro In the last section we’ve made some initial design decisions which will influence our solution. In this section we’ll pick a database, review and insert some questions, review the apis and a sample sequence flow, review our overall architecture and finally deploy our kubernetes applications. Database We are going to simply…

Introduction In this series of articles, I want to show you how you can create your own custom competitive Kubernetes Training experience for your colleagues, on AKS. You could also use it as part of an interview test for potential employees. Demo First let’s look at the “finished” (more like a POC)…

Overview In this article, I’ll show you how easy it is to integrate Azure AD as an Authentication mechanism for your React Application. We’ll use this authentication mechanism for future Articles. Here’s a simplified high level sequence flow. Prerequisites Create a AD User for testing purposes App Registration Search for App Registration in Azure…