Azure Arc is part of Microsoft’s vision for a successful hybrid cloud deployments and management. Arc enables consistent management of your IT estate across multi-cloud, hybrid and edge deployments. What Arc enables is the use of Azure management and policy tools to manage and secure your IT estate. Currently, there are three solutions announced that […]
Tag: kubernetes

Taking the Open Service Mesh for a test drive
It caugt me a little by surprise last week when Microsoft released a Service Mesh: We are beyond excited to introduce Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight and extensible #servicemesh that implements @SMI_spec and runs on @kubernetesio @EnvoyProxy! Check out what we’ve been up to here:https://t.co/l6fy4OUorO — Open Service Mesh (@openservicemesh) August 5, 2020 The […]

Maintaining client IP on a Service in the Azure Kubernetes Service
Did you know that if you’re running a service in Kubernetes without additional configuration that you lose the client’s IP address? If you’re answer was ‘no’, you’re in the same boat I was last weekend. Tim Hockin from Google made a nice presentation about connecting into a Kubernetes cluster that opened my eyes to this […]

Run Kubernetes clusters locally using kind
How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to ‘test something new’? How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to start learning about new functionalities? In my case, I do this pretty frequently. I very frequently spin up (and down) Azure Kubernetes clusters. This approach comes with two downsides however: it takes […]

Lessons learnt co-authoring a book
I wrote a book! Writing a book is something that stood on my bucket list of things I wanted to achieve, and I hadn’t considered actually doing it year. However, I got a great opportunity to work with Packt on the second edition of the Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure book. I am very glad with […]