Azure Load Testing news
I have been using Azure Load Testing for my Azure Chaos Studio demos for a while now. The service provides an on-demand infrastructure to run your load tests as a managed service. Recently, the service...
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My preparation and tips for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam
A few weeks back, I passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam, a long-term item on my to-do list, and eventually accomplished it. -> https://www.cncf.io/certification/cka/ ->...
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Running Fluent Bit on Azure Linux in Azure Kubernetes Service
In May this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Linux support in Azure Kubernetes Service. ->...
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Fluent Bit and Kata Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
In the past, I have written two blog posts about how to run untrusted workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service. ->...
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Using HTTP status code 307/308 for HTTPS redirect with the Istio ingress gateway
The gateway definition for the Istio ingress gateway provides a configuration parameter to enable the HTTPS redirect of HTTP connections. ->...
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Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server – Feature set on par with Single Server
The Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server was from its launch the better option than the Single Server, especially from a performance perspective. However, the Flexible Server was missing important features...
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Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud continuous export via Terraform
Microsoft Defender for Cloud supports the continuous export of a variety of data to Azure Event Hubs and Azure Log Analytics workspaces. When you use Azure Event Hubs, you can stream those data also to...
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Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager – Advance your Kubernetes cluster update...
The Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager comes with two different configuration options with and without a hub cluster configuration. In today’s blog post, we focus on the Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager...
View ArticleShow enabled feature gates on an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Recently, I needed to check which feature gates are active on an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster running Kubernetes version 1.29.0. In particular, the SidecarContainers feature gate brings support for...
View ArticleUsing Istio with Kubernetes native sidecars on Azure Kubernetes Service
In my previous blog post, I showed you how to check for specific feature gates on an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. ->...
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Cost optimize your Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server deployments
As I am currently preparing my session for Experts Live Germany about Azure Cost Optimization, I thought it might be good to share parts of the session as blog articles with the community. So, expect...
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Microsoft drops data transfer charges between Availability Zones
An important announcement during this year’s Microsoft Build has not gotten much traction and might have been missed in the vast amount of updates and announcements. Microsoft did an update to its...
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Ingesting Azure Diagnostic Logs into Azure Data Explorer
In today’s blog post, we look at the Azure Diagnostic Logs and how to ingest them into Azure Data Explorer. Besides the Diagnostic Logs, we cover Activity Logs and Diagnostic Metrics as well. All three...
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Using Azure Data Explorer as logging backend for Fluent Bit
Azure Data Explorer can be used as a logging backend for Fluent Bit in three different ways. In today’s blog post, we focus on one of them that in my opinion is the best one out of those three. This is...
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Sneak peek into the new Fluent Bit Azure Data Explorer output plugin version
In my last blog post, I wrote about the different options for using Azure Data Explorer as a logging backend for Fluent Bit. ->...
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Export Azure Kubernetes Service control plane logs to Azure Data Explorer
In today’s blog post, we look at the Azure Kubernetes Service control plane logs and how to ingest them into Azure Data Explorer. Especially, the Kubernetes Audit (kube-audit) log. Azure Data Explorer...
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Designing the Azure Data Explorer table structure for Azure Diagnostic Logs...
In my recent blog posts about Azure Data Explorer, I wrote about Activity Logs and Diagnostic Logs ingestion. ->...
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Retrieve Kubernetes Pods IP addresses with Fluent Bit
In the recent 3.2.1 release, Fluent Bit added a long-awaited functionality that has been available for a long time in FluentD: the capability to extract the Kubernetes Pod IP address and enrich the log...
View ArticleNew Fluent Bit Azure Data Explorer output plugin version available
In the recent 3.2.2 release, the new Azure Data Explorer output plugin version is available. Azure_kusto (Output) fix multiple files tail issue and timeout issue (#8430) ->...
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Use Fluent Bit for Kubernetes events gathering on Azure Kubernetes Service
For a while now Fluent Bit has a new input plugin that allows us to gather Kubernetes events, modify, and ingest them into the logging backend. ->...
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