Post Overview

  • A look at Windows containers on AKS

    A look at Windows containers on AKS

    Now that the public preview of Windows containers on AKS is available, let’s look at the basics. You need a couple of things to get started, including a couple of subscription-wide settings. I recommend using a subscription that is not used to roll out production AKS clusters. Make sure the Azure CLI (az) is homed… Read more

  • A first look at Rancher Rio

    A first look at Rancher Rio

    As explained on https://github.com/rancher/rio, Rancher Rio is a MicroPaaS that can be layered on top of any standard Kubernetes cluster. It makes it easier to deploy, scale, version and expose services. In this post, we will take a quick look at some of its basic capabilities. To follow along, make sure you have a Kubernetes… Read more

  • Streamlined Kubernetes Development with Draft

    Streamlined Kubernetes Development with Draft

    A longer time ago, I wrote a post about draft. Draft is a tool to streamline your Kubernetes development experience. It basically automates, based on your code, the creation of a container image, storing the image in a registry and installing a container based on that image using a Helm chart. Draft is meant to… Read more

  • Update on restricting egress traffic on Azure Kubernetes Service

    In an earlier post, I discussed the combination of Azure Firewall and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to secure ingress and egress AKS traffic. A few days ago, Microsoft added documentation that describes the ports and URLs to allow when you route traffic through Azure Firewall or a virtual appliance. Some of the allowed ports and… Read more

  • Creating and deploying a model with Azure Machine Learning Service

    Creating and deploying a model with Azure Machine Learning Service

    In this post, we will take a look at creating a simple machine learning model for text classification and deploying it as a container with Azure Machine Learning service. This post is not intended to discuss the finer details of creating a text classification model. In fact, we will use the Keras library and its… Read more

  • Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Firewall

    Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Firewall

    Deploying Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is, like most other Kubernetes-as-a-service offerings such as those from DigitalOcean and Google, very straightforward. It’s either a few clicks in the portal or one or two command lines and you are finished. Using these services properly and in a secure fashion is another matter though. I am often asked… Read more