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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Azure Kubernetes Service
Practical guidance for designing, securing and operating Azure Kubernetes Service.
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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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Networking, observability, scaling, governance and the multi-cluster reality.
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To quickly grasp Dapr on Kubernetes, it’s best to start locally rather than with an AKS cluster. Local setup allows for rapid pod creation in seconds, minimizes the consequences …
What Is Dapr, and Why Run It on Kubernetes?
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Secrets Management Showdown: Azure Key Vault CSI Driver vs. External Secrets Operator
The real question is not whether to use the Azure Key Vault provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver or the External Secrets Operator (ESO). Instead, it’s whether your …
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Is Azure Container Apps Eating AKS's Lunch for Smaller Workloads?
Kubernetes has become so familiar that many teams don’t choose to adopt it anymore; they just start using it. When a new internal API appears, someone sets up an AKS …