I was chatting with a customer last week about the Azure Container Registry. One of the questions that came up was image scanning. There is an integration between the Azure Container Registry and Azure Defender that will perform image scanning. The goal of this blog post is to explore these capabilities and have a look […]
Category: DevOps

Using Pulumi and Python to create a private Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Pulumi is a somewhat new kid on the infrastructure-as-code block. I’ve been looking for an opportunity to work with Pulumi for a while, and a recent customer engagement caused me to investigate it in a bit more detail. This led me to create this post, exploring how to create a private AKS cluster and a […]

Key Vault CSI driver integrated with AAD-managed pod identities
Tomorrow I’m joining the 425 show on Twitch for a discussion on AAD-managed pod identities and how to integrate them with Key Vault. This blog post is both a sneak preview of what we’ll be discussing tomorrow as well as a review of the episode if you want to study things more in-depth after it […]

Exploring the new GitHub Actions continuous delivery functionality
At GitHub Universe in early December 2020, some new functionalities for GitHub Actions focused on continuous delivery were introduced. In this blog post, we’ll explore them in the context of a simple web-app deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. Before diving into what’s new, let’s have a look at what GitHub Actions are: What are GitHub […]

Customize core dump in Azure Kubernetes
A core dump is a common way to get information about process crashes. It saves the memory state, which can later be used for troubleshooting purposes. Being able to perform a core dump in Kubernetes is a little bit more involved than on a regular system. You will need to configure the Kubernetes hosts in […]