GitOps on Azure Kubernetes Service: Building a Production-Ready Platform with Flux
Kubernetes platforms seldom fail due to the technology itself; instead, failures are usually caused by operational issues.
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AKS removes control-plane management, but production platforms still require deliberate decisions about identity, networking, reliability, cost and day-two operations. This topic collects field-tested guidance for making those decisions.
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Reducing AKS Costs: Autoscaling, Spot Nodes, Rightsizing, and FinOps Practices
Introduction: Cost Is an Outcome of Scheduling Decisions
Running AI Workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service: From Platform Control to Model Serving
Most teams begin their AI journey by using a managed model API. This approach works initially but can become problematic when costs become…
When Your Cluster Isn’t Sufficient: Introducing Virtual Pools in AKS
There’s a moment in every Kubernetes journey when the cluster begins to feel… heavy. Not broken, not misconfigured, but stretched in ways…
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Ingress-NGINX Is Retired: Choosing and Migrating to What Comes Next
Ingress-NGINX has stopped receiving patches, so it's time to plan the move. Here's what I would look at, whether you run AKS or managed Kubernetes at a hosting provider, plus what I learned testing the migration paths.
Production Readiness for Dapr on AKS: Upgrades, Disaster Recovery, and Lessons Learned
Production readiness starts where most tutorials end. Installing Dapr, deploying sidecars, and proving the building blocks are necessary milestones, but they do not answer the …
Securing and Scaling Dapr for Production on AKS
A Dapr-enabled application can work perfectly with one replica and still be unprepared for production. The sidecar may have no resource requests, every application may be able to …
Observability for Dapr on AKS: Traces, Metrics, and Logs
A request can fail even when every Kubernetes pod is Running. The application may be waiting for a Dapr component, a retry may mask a slow dependency, or a call may reach the …
Bindings, Secrets, and Actors with Dapr on AKS
The first six parts of this series covered Dapr’s most familiar building blocks: service invocation, state management, and pub/sub. They solve application-to-application …
Pub/Sub Messaging with Dapr and Azure Service Bus on AKS
A synchronous request establishes a direct dependency: the caller pauses while the destination handles the task. This approach is suitable when an immediate response is required. …