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Azure Container Apps vs Azure Kubernetes Service: When to Use Each
Choose Container Apps when: You want managed infrastructure Your team lacks Kubernetes expertise You have event driven or HTTP workloads You need rapid time…
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Kubernetes Cost Optimization on AKS: Lessons from 2025
Kubernetes cost optimization is continuous. Review these metrics weekly and adjust based on actual usage patterns.
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Containerization and Kubernetes: Lessons Learned in 2022
Containerization and Kubernetes: Lessons Learned in 2022
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Istio on AKS: Complete Service Mesh Implementation
Istio on AKS: Complete Service Mesh Implementation
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Azure CNI Overlay: Scalable Pod Networking
Traditional Azure CNI assigns VNet IPs to pods, limiting scale. Overlay mode uses a separate address space for pods.
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Calico on AKS: Advanced Network Policies
Calico provides enterprise grade network security for AKS with features beyond standard Kubernetes Network Policies.
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Kubernetes Network Policies: Securing Pod Communication
Network Policies provide essential microsegmentation for Kubernetes clusters. Enable a CNI that supports policies (like Azure CNI or Calico) to enforce them.
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Dockershim Removal: Migrating to containerd on AKS
Dockershim was a Kubernetes component that translated Docker API calls to the Container Runtime Interface (CRI). With its removal, containerd communicates…
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Azure Kubernetes Service 1.24: New Features and Breaking Changes
Dockershim removal Seccomp by default Pod security admission Ephemeral containers GA Storage capacity tracking With Dockershim removed, containerd is now…
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AKS Cost Review: Fix Requests First, Then Nodes, Then Billing
A practical order for cutting AKS spend in early 2022: right-size pod requests, tune the cluster autoscaler, then use spot, stop/start and reservations.
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A New AKS Cluster Baseline for 2022: What Changed in Late 2021
The AKS features that reached GA in 2021 and change how I'd build a new cluster in January 2022: Azure RBAC, no local accounts, auto-upgrade and Key Vault CSI.
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Dapr on Azure in 2022: Picking a Host and Securing Components
Where to run Dapr 1.5 on Azure in early 2022 (AKS, the new AKS extension, or Container Apps) and how to wire Azure components without leaking keys.
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Kubernetes Adoption in the Enterprise: Lessons from 2021
Most enterprises settled on managed Kubernetes. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) became the default choice for Azure shops: Flux and ArgoCD emerged as the…
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Deep Dive into Azure Monitor for Containers
Azure Monitor for Containers (the Container Insights feature) is the native Azure observability solution for AKS that doesn't require running your own…
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Building Effective Grafana Dashboards for AKS
Grafana is the visualisation layer that makes Prometheus metrics interpretable at a glance—and for AKS, the starting point is the community dashboards that…
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Prometheus Metrics Collection in AKS
Prometheus became the observability standard for Kubernetes because its data model—time-series metrics with labels—maps naturally to the dynamic…
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Comprehensive AKS Monitoring with Container Insights
Container Insights is the Azure Monitor feature that closes the observability gap for AKS clusters—without it, you have Kubernetes metrics available in the…
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Azure AD Workload Identity for AKS: The Future of Pod Identity
Azure AD Workload Identity is the architecture-level improvement over AAD Pod Identity that removes the NMI DaemonSet and uses Kubernetes native service…
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Secure Azure Access with AKS Pod Identity
AAD Pod Identity was the original mechanism for giving Kubernetes pods an Azure AD identity so they could access Azure resources—Key Vault secrets, Storage…
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Serverless Kubernetes with AKS Virtual Nodes
Virtual nodes in AKS enable pods to run on Azure Container Instances rather than on VM-based node pool nodes—useful for burst workloads that spike…
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Cost Optimization with AKS Spot Node Pools
AKS Spot node pools are the cost reduction lever that can cut compute spend by up to 90%—at the cost of accepting that Azure may evict spot nodes with a…
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Designing AKS Node Pools for Production Workloads
Node pools are the AKS mechanism for running heterogeneous workloads on a single cluster—different VM SKUs, OS types, and node configurations within the…
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Azure Kubernetes Service Upgrades: A Practical Guide
AKS cluster upgrades are the operational task that feels straightforward until you do them in production and discover the nuances—node cordoning order, pod…
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Helm Charts for Azure Kubernetes Service
Helm charts provide a powerful way to package and deploy applications to AKS with Azure specific integrations. By leveraging values files for environment…
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Container Monitoring on Azure: AKS Insights and Beyond
Container Insights is the built in monitoring solution for AKS: This deploys: OMS agent as DaemonSet Metrics collection Log forwarding to Log Analytics…
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Running Windows Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
Many enterprises have legacy .NET Framework applications that cannot easily migrate to .NET Core. Windows containers provide a path to containerization…
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Azure Kubernetes Service Networking Deep Dive
AKS networking is the part of Kubernetes that looks like a detail until it becomes a blocker. "I can't reach the on-prem database from the cluster" is a…
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AKS, ACI or App Service? Choosing an Azure Container Platform
How I decide between AKS, Azure Container Instances and App Service for containers in early 2021, and why AKS is often the wrong first choice.
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Azure Kubernetes Service: Managed Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service: Managed Kubernetes
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Rolling, Blue-Green and Canary Deployments on AKS
How to choose between rolling updates, blue-green and canary releases on AKS, what each one actually guarantees, and when the extra machinery pays off.