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Azure Kubernetes Chronicles part 3: Observability Welcome back to the Azure Kubernetes Chronicles! In our previous posts, we explored the basics of Container Network Interfaces (CNIs) and had a first glance at how eBPF is changing networking within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you might want to catch up here. In this episode, we’re diving even deeper into the labyrinth of Kubernetes by shining a light on a topic that’s both critical and fascinating: Observability! ...

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles Networking using eBPF Welcome back to the Azure Kubernetes Chronicles, a blog series dedicated to unraveling the complexities of Kubernetes on Azure. In the first edition, we explored the fundamentals of the Container Network Interface (CNI), its role in Kubernetes networking, and how it powers communication within clusters. Building on that foundation, this next episode delves into the transformative impact of eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) when integrated with CNI. By combining these technologies, we unlock new possibilities for enhancing networking, security, and observability in Kubernetes environments, particularly on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). ...

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles Container Network Interfaces In today’s cloud landscape, Kubernetes has become one of the backbones of modern application development, empowering businesses to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications effortlessly. But with great power comes great complexity! That’s where Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) comes into play — a managed Kubernetes service designed to make your container orchestration journey smoother and more productive. This blog series, Azure Kubernetes Chronicles, is here for platform engineers, CloudOps professionals and Cloud architects who are beginning their Kubernetes journey or looking to streamline their operations to guide you through the essentials and beyond, as we dive into some of the tools, features, and best practices for leveraging Azure Kubernetes to its fullest potential.In this first part the focus lies on the Container Network Interface (CNI). ...

Introduction In the rapidly changing cloud landscape, security and privacy are key concerns for businesses and individuals alike. Confidential Compute turns out to be a possible solution, ensuring sensitive data remains private and secure even in shared computing environments. In this blog post, I want to explain the concept of Confidential Compute in general and explore the specifics of how Azure has implemented confidential compute and how this can help with cloud sovereignty. ...

Introduction This year KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe was held in the Netherlands at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam. KubeCon started with the different sponsor hosted and CNCF hosted colocated events like ArgoCon, CiliumCon, Observability day and Azure Day with Kubernetes. Very cool that it was hosted in the Netherlands, felt as home game. In this post I want to give a recap of the Azure Day with Kubernetes and KubeCon with some of the highlights, announcements and interesting sessions that I have attended. Videos of all the colocated events are or will become available in the next days. Watch this channel for the all the talks of KubeCon and other events like KCD. ...

Introduction Recently Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials became general available. AKS Edge Essentials is the latest addition to the AKS portfolio which already consist of Azure Kubernetes Services and AKS hybrid cluster. The product was originally announced at Ignite 2022 as AKS light. With AKS Edge, Microsoft makes it possible to run AKS on local Windows machines or Edge devices running the Windows operating system. AKS Edge Essentials includes the following features, managed by Microsoft: ...