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2026  29

November  1

Ingress-NGINX Is Retired: Choosing and Migrating to What Comes Next

November 7, 2026 · 27 min · 5713 words · Jurgen Allewijn

October  6

Production Readiness for Dapr on AKS: Upgrades, Disaster Recovery, and Lessons Learned

October 31, 2026 · 14 min · 2962 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Securing and Scaling Dapr for Production on AKS

October 21, 2026 · 21 min · 4323 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Observability for Dapr on AKS: Traces, Metrics, and Logs

October 18, 2026 · 12 min · 2338 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Bindings, Secrets, and Actors with Dapr on AKS

October 14, 2026 · 24 min · 4887 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Pub/Sub Messaging with Dapr and Azure Service Bus on AKS

October 11, 2026 · 20 min · 4238 words · Jurgen Allewijn

State Management with Dapr on AKS

October 4, 2026 · 10 min · 1910 words · Jurgen Allewijn

September  7

Service Invocation with Dapr on AKS

September 30, 2026 · 10 min · 2008 words · Jurgen Allewijn

From OrbStack to AKS: Installing Dapr on a Managed Cluster

September 26, 2026 · 12 min · 2443 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Installing Dapr on Kubernetes Locally with OrbStack

September 16, 2026 · 11 min · 2143 words · Jurgen Allewijn

What Is Dapr, and Why Run It on Kubernetes?

September 13, 2026 · 9 min · 1817 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Secrets Management Showdown: Azure Key Vault CSI Driver vs. External Secrets Operator

September 9, 2026 · 8 min · 1661 words · Jurgen Allewijn

KubeBuddy: An Agentless Second Opinion for Kubernetes

September 6, 2026 · 7 min · 1439 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Is Azure Container Apps Eating AKS’s Lunch for Smaller Workloads?

September 4, 2026 · 9 min · 1721 words · Jurgen Allewijn

August  2

Secure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

August 13, 2026 · 12 min · 2470 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Apple container, one year on: from tech demo to a real Docker Desktop alternative

August 7, 2026 · 12 min · 2522 words · Jurgen Allewijn

July  1

Reducing AKS Costs: Autoscaling, Spot Nodes, Rightsizing, and FinOps Practices

July 23, 2026 · 8 min · 1499 words · Jurgen Allewijn

June  5

Running AI Workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service: From Platform Control to Model Serving

June 26, 2026 · 6 min · 1208 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Optimizing Azure Container Apps Costs: Scaling to Zero, Workload Profiles, and FinOps

June 16, 2026 · 9 min · 1698 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Application Network, Part 3: AI Gateway, Observability and Production Fit

June 10, 2026 · 11 min · 2181 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Application Network, Part 2: Zero-Trust and Multi-Cluster Patterns

June 7, 2026 · 8 min · 1564 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Application Network, Part 1: What AppNet Is and How to Get Started

June 4, 2026 · 12 min · 2371 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  2

When Your Cluster Isn’t Sufficient: Introducing Virtual Pools in AKS

March 22, 2026 · 8 min · 1558 words · Jurgen Allewijn

GitOps on Azure Kubernetes Service: Building a Production-Ready Platform with Flux

March 18, 2026 · 10 min · 2018 words · Jurgen Allewijn

February  1

When Kubernetes Lies:

February 19, 2026 · 18 min · 3749 words · Jurgen Allewijn

January  4

Cloud Security Is a System, Not a Stack

January 28, 2026 · 4 min · 780 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Security Fails Quietly When Nobody Owns It

January 20, 2026 · 4 min · 847 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Architecture Decides the Blast Radius

January 13, 2026 · 5 min · 932 words · Jurgen Allewijn

You Are Logging Everything — And Seeing Almost Nothing

January 6, 2026 · 5 min · 964 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2025  26

December  3

Identity Is the Perimeter You Forgot to Guard

December 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1109 words · Jurgen Allewijn

The First Security Conversation You Have Too Late: Hardening an Existing Azure Environment

December 23, 2025 · 5 min · 856 words · Jurgen Allewijn

The Unseen Work of a Cloud Architect: A Story About Building Azure the Hard (and Right) Way

December 5, 2025 · 12 min · 2510 words · Jurgen Allewijn

November  3

Operating AKS from your workstation

November 30, 2025 · 13 min · 2612 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Beyond the Cloud: Running Kubernetes with Talos: Comparing Talos, k3s, AKS, and EKS

November 25, 2025 · 7 min · 1460 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Application Gateway for Containers: The Future of Cloud-Native Ingress

November 12, 2025 · 13 min · 2744 words · Jurgen Allewijn

October  7

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 12: The Future of Multi-Cluster

October 28, 2025 · 5 min · 857 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Using the AKS-MCP Server in Day-to-Day Operations

October 23, 2025 · 9 min · 1805 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 11: Governing the Chaos

October 21, 2025 · 5 min · 987 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 10: Kubernetes at the Edge with k3s

October 13, 2025 · 5 min · 932 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Running Containers the Apple Way: A First Look into Apple Container on macOS

October 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1216 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Security Demystified: From Nodes to Pods

October 6, 2025 · 10 min · 1927 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 9: EKS in the Enterprise

October 1, 2025 · 4 min · 847 words · Jurgen Allewijn

September  4

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 8: Fleet in Focus

September 24, 2025 · 4 min · 793 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 7: The Multi-Cluster Reality

September 18, 2025 · 5 min · 956 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles: Multi-Cluster Edition

September 12, 2025 · 3 min · 487 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 6:

September 3, 2025 · 19 min · 3972 words · Jurgen Allewijn

August  1

Digital Sovereignty and the Public Cloud:

August 27, 2025 · 11 min · 2158 words · Jurgen Allewijn

July  1

Harnessing Chaos: Implementing Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio and Gremlin on AKS

July 1, 2025 · 14 min · 2850 words · Jurgen Allewijn

May  1

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles part 5:

May 7, 2025 · 19 min · 3921 words · Jurgen Allewijn

April  1

From Code to Cloud: A Hands-On Guide to Azure Container Apps

April 3, 2025 · 20 min · 4198 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  1

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles part 4

March 13, 2025 · 11 min · 2210 words · Jurgen Allewijn

February  2

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles part 3

February 28, 2025 · 14 min · 2787 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles

February 11, 2025 · 11 min · 2176 words · Jurgen Allewijn

January  2

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles

January 28, 2025 · 8 min · 1647 words · Jurgen Allewijn

Challenging the Cloud Cost-Saving Myth

January 7, 2025 · 9 min · 1728 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2024  2

December  1

Zero Trust in the Cloud

December 6, 2024 · 8 min · 1543 words · Jurgen Allewijn

January  1

Recap of 2023

January 3, 2024 · 4 min · 661 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2023  5

November  1

Confidential Computing

November 20, 2023 · 15 min · 3029 words · Jurgen Allewijn

June  1

Devopsdays Amsterdam 2023

June 27, 2023 · 6 min · 1139 words · Jurgen Allewijn

April  2

Azure Day on Kubernetes + KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

April 22, 2023 · 8 min · 1596 words · Jurgen Allewijn

AKS Edge Essentials

April 4, 2023 · 5 min · 976 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  1

Kubernetes Community Days Amsterdam 2023

March 1, 2023 · 5 min · 965 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2022  1

May  1

Calico Big Cats Ambassador program

May 16, 2022 · 1 min · 127 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2020  2

August  1

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe Virtual

August 17, 2020 · 1 min · 202 words · Jurgen Allewijn

April  1

Blog updated and migrated

April 1, 2020 · 4 min · 682 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2019  6

October  1

k3s: Enable Traefik dashboard

October 17, 2019 · 2 min · 255 words · Jurgen Allewijn

June  1

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 part 2

June 11, 2019 · 4 min · 821 words · Jurgen Allewijn

May  1

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 part 1

May 17, 2019 · 6 min · 1268 words · Jurgen Allewijn

April  1

k3s: Kubernetes Dashboard + load balancer

April 8, 2019 · 3 min · 503 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  2

k3s: release v0.2.0 released

March 9, 2019 · 3 min · 466 words · Jurgen Allewijn

k3s: Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution first experience

March 6, 2019 · 5 min · 928 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2018  3

July  1

Containers Today 2018

July 1, 2018 · 3 min · 509 words · Jurgen Allewijn

June  1

Containers Today announcement

June 19, 2018 · 2 min · 298 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  1

VMware vExpert 2018 awarded

March 10, 2018 · 5 min · 894 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2017  6

September  4

VMworld 2017 (Day 3)

September 15, 2017 · 1 min · 208 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld 2017 Europe (day 2)

September 14, 2017 · 2 min · 244 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld 2017 Europe (day 1)

September 13, 2017 · 1 min · 151 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld Partner Exchange

September 11, 2017 · 1 min · 183 words · Jurgen Allewijn

August  1

VMworld 2017 Europe

August 1, 2017 · 1 min · 144 words · Jurgen Allewijn

February  1

vExpert 2017

February 9, 2017 · 3 min · 470 words · Jurgen Allewijn

2016  6

October  4

VMworld 2016 Day 3, be_Tomorrow

October 20, 2016 · 2 min · 395 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld 2016 Day 1, be_Tomorrow

October 19, 2016 · 3 min · 508 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld 2016 Day 2, be_Tomorrow

October 19, 2016 · 3 min · 539 words · Jurgen Allewijn

VMworld 2016 Partner and TAM day

October 17, 2016 · 2 min · 273 words · Jurgen Allewijn

September  1

AWS Enterprise Summit

September 26, 2016 · 3 min · 429 words · Jurgen Allewijn

March  1

Docker Randstad Meetup: March 2016

March 25, 2016 · 2 min · 272 words · Jurgen Allewijn

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