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  • Azure Policy for Kubernetes: Contraints and ConstraintTemplates

    Azure Policy for Kubernetes: Contraints and ConstraintTemplates

    In one on my videos on my YouTube channel, I talked about Kubernetes authentication and used the image below: To secure access to the Kubernetes API server, you need to be authenticated and properly authorized to do what you need to do. The third mechanism to secure access is admission control. Simply put, admission control… Read more

  • Azure Kubernetes Service authentication with Azure AD

    Azure Kubernetes Service authentication with Azure AD

    If you have ever installed Kubernetes on your own hardware or you have worked with Kubernetes on the desktop with a tool like kind, you probably know that you need a config file that tells the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) how to talk to the Kubernetes API server. It contains the address of the API server,… Read more

  • Azure Policy: Kubernetes pod security baseline explained

    Azure Policy: Kubernetes pod security baseline explained

    When you deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in an enterprise context, you will probably be asked about policies that can be applied to AKS for compliance and security. In this post, we will discuss Azure Policy for Kubernetes briefly and then proceed to explaining a group of policies that implement baseline security settings. Azure Policy… Read more

  • Deploying Helm Charts with Azure DevOps pipelines

    Deploying Helm Charts with Azure DevOps pipelines

    I recently uploaded a video to my YouTube channel about this topic: In this post, I will provide some more information about the pipelines. Again, many thanks to this post on which the solution is based. The YAML pipelines can be found in my go-template repository. The application is basically a starter template to create… Read more

  • Kubernetes Canary Deployments with GitHub Actions

    Kubernetes Canary Deployments with GitHub Actions

    In the previous post, we looked at some of the GitHub Actions you can use with Microsoft Azure. One of those actions is the azure/k8s-deploy action which is currently at v1.4 (January 2021). To use that action, include the following snippet in your workflow: The above snippet uses baked manifests from an earlier azure/k8s-bake action… Read more

  • A look at GitHub Actions for Azure and AKS deployments

    A look at GitHub Actions for Azure and AKS deployments

    In the past, I wrote about using Azure DevOps to deploy an AKS cluster and bootstrap it with Flux v2, a GitOps solution. In an older post, I also described bootstrapping the cluster with Helm deployments from the pipeline. In this post, we will take a look at doing the above with GitHub Actions. Along… Read more