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Effective Kubernetes for JakartaEE and Microprofile Developers

November 2, 2023 Nov 2, 2023 11/2/23

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In this post, David Minkovski explores some best practices to get your deployment up and running on Kubernetes and Azure. Motivation Kubernetes has become one of the most loved solutions for managing containers. But can you tell me why people love it? Because it runs magic containers (essentially what you want) where you want. Whether...

Deploying Kubernetes Cluster on Azure VMs using kubeadm, CNI and containerd

January 21, 2023 Jan 21, 2023 01/21/23

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Cenk Caglar and Toros Gökkurt walk through how to deploy Kubernetes clusters on Azure VMs using kubeadm, CNI and containerd. Although managed Kubernetes clusters are great, ready for production, and secure, they hide most of the administrative operations. I remember the days I was working with Kubernetes the hard way repository to ...

A Survey of Kubernetes Features in Azure

September 25, 2019 Sep 25, 2019 09/25/19

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Using Azure services like AKS, Azure Container Instances and Azure Dev Spaces makes setting up a cluster and testing your containers relatively simple.

AKS Series– Using Azure Dev Spaces with Visual Studio Kubernetes Tooling

April 22, 2019 Apr 22, 2019 04/22/19

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Azure Kubernetes Service brings a world class managed kubernetes service to the cloud. Customers can now leverage the power of Kubernetes platform without having to worry about managing the control plane. As a result of that, customers are now able to embark on the containerization journey with confidence. In this blog post, we will see how Visual Studio makes it easy to collaborate with AKS using Azure Dev Spaces.

AKS Series – Use Azure Storage Option as Persistent Volumes in AKS

April 19, 2019 Apr 19, 2019 04/19/19

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One of the best practices with containers is not to persist data inside the containers for long term as containers are ephermal. These containers can be removed and rebuilt very often and may require storage that persists across pods beyond the application lifecycle. In this blog post, we will learn about how to create Persistent Volumes in AKS with Azure Files.

Bypassing authentication for the local Kubernetes Cluster Dashboard

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19

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It’s no secret that you can run a local version of Kubernetes on Docker Desktop for Windows, however, getting the Dashboard installed and configured correctly can be challenging. The problem is that the default installation requires you to manage an admin user and copy that user's bearer token into the portal to login.

Why you should consider VS Code for your Kubernetes/Docker work – Part 2

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19

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In this follow up article, we will cover how it can help to deploy Container images stored into Azure Container Registry (ACR). We will also cover the kubectl explain integration which is helpful to understand the structure of YAML files used to describe Kubernetes API objects.

Why you should consider VS Code for your Kubernetes/Docker work

December 26, 2018 Dec 26, 2018 12/26/18

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VS Code can really be the platform of choice to benefit from the best features. Furthermore, its cross platform support allow users to have the same customer experience on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS).

Part II – Kubernetes DevOps : Introduction to Helm

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18

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This is the second post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman. We recently worked on K8s project together and thought to share out learnings. In the last post, you get to know the application that going to be deployed in the Kubernetes cluster. In this post, you will learn about the tool called “Helm”.

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