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Notes of the week: managed agent harnesses, Microsoft's own models and Claude in the EU
Two things stood out in this week's Notes. Microsoft now runs the agent loop for you in Foundry, with a managed harness, skills and recovery from interruptions. And it keeps widening model choice in two directions at once: its own frontier models from Microsoft AI, and Anthropic's Claude models moving into the EU Data Boundary…
aiQuick Guide to Flux v2 on AKS
Now that the Flux v2 extension for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Arc is generally available, let’s do a quick guide on the topic. A Quick Guide, at least on this site 😉, is a look at the topic from a command-line perspective for easy reproduction and evaluation. This Quick Guide is also on GitHub.…
azureQuick Guide to the Secret Store CSI driver for Azure Key Vault on AKS
Yesterday, I posted the Quick Guide to Kubernetes Workload Identity on AKS. This post contains a similar guide to enabling and using the Secret Store CSI driver for Azure Key Vault on AKS. All commands assume bash. You should have the Azure CLI installed and logged in to the subscription as the owner (because you…
azureAzure 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…
azureAKS Pod Identity with the Azure SDK for Go
In an earlier post, I wrote about the use of AKS Pod Identity (Preview) in combination with the Azure SDK for Python. Although that works fine, there are some issues with that solution: the container image is around 1GB, which is quite large (it is based on tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi:python3.7) as expected, the image contains many vulnerabilities…
azureAKS Azure Monitor metrics and alerts
In today’s post, we will take a quick look at Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) metrics and alerts for Azure Monitor. Out of the box, Microsoft offers two ways to obtain metrics: Metrics that can easily be used with Azure Monitor to generate alerts; these metrics are written to the Azure Monitor metrics store Metrics forwarded…
analyticsPublishing and securing your API with Kong and Azure Front Door
In the post, Securing your API with Kong and CloudFlare, I exposed a dummy API on Kubernetes with Kong and published it securely with CloudFlare. The breadth of features and its ease of use made CloudFlare a joy to work with. It didn’t take long before I got the question: “can’t you do that with Azure…
apiAzure API Management with public APIs on Kubernetes
In my previous blog post, I looked at Azure API Management in combination with private APIs hosted on Kubernetes. The APIs were exposed via Traefik and an internal load balancer. To make that scenario work, the Azure API Management premium SKU is required, which is quite costly. This post describes another approach where the APIs…
apiA 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…
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