Azure Container Service on Thorsten Hans

Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure Container Services

Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

With Azure Key Vault, Microsoft is offering a dedicated and secure service to manage and maintain sensitive data like Connection-Strings, Certificates, or key-value pairs.

We’re hoping to see a native Azure Key Vault integration for Azure Container Services (ACS) in the near future. At least the official FAQ mentions the feature on the product’s roadmap. Until this features will be shipped and if you’re using another Kubernetes environment - such as GCP or AWS offerings -, you’ve to integrate Azure Key Vault manually into your application building blocks to get rid of storing most sensitive data in plain old Kubernetes Secrets.

Upgrading a Kubernetes cluster on AKS using Azure CLI

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Upgrading an on-premises Kubernetes cluster can be very cumbersome and time-consuming task. It’s not just a single upgrade command that you can execute and everything happens magically behind the scenes. A single command for upgrading an entire Kubernetes cluster would be awesome 💚 and that’s exactly what’s provided by the AKS team. A single command to upgrade all your masters and nodes.

My fellow MVP Tobias Zimmergren wrote a great post on how to upgrade AKS clusters a couple of weeks ago. But technology and tools are changing quickly these days.

Hybrid Kubernetes Cluster on Azure Container Services

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Using Azure Container Services (ACS) you can easily build hybrid kubernetes clusters. In this context, hybrid means that you’ll end up having a kubernetes cluster with both, Linux Nodes and Windows Nodes.

In this article I’ll guide you through the process of creating a new hybrid kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Services.

Prerequisites

When starting from scratch, you need only a few things:

a Microsoft Azure Account
a Text Editor
a local installation of kubectl
Azure CLI 2.0 installed on your machine

Configuring Azure CLI

Once you’ve all the prerequisites in place, it’s time to care a bit about our Azure Subscription.

How to use a private Azure Container Registry with Kubernetes

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Besides using the goodness of Azure Container Services (ACS). Different Azure services like Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Container Instances (ACI) can be used and connected from independent container orchestrators like kubernetes (k8s). This post will explain how to set up a custom ACR and connect it to an existing k8s cluster to ensure images will be pulled from the private container registry instead of the public docker hub.