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Azure Spring Clean - DCK, ACR, ACI, AKS, ACA, the Azure Container Alphabet Soup

Hey friends, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton where I’m honored to be able to participate in again for the 4th year already. Thanks guys for trusting me once more for sharing some Azure knowledge… This time, I wanted to try and guide you through the buzzword of the last couple of years, containers… and more specifically, what different options you have in Azure to run your containerized workloads.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Upgrading an AKS cluster in 20 min

Ever since I joined Microsoft (Sept 2019) and started working in the Azure Technical Trainer team, I deployed a demo Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with a few sample containers. Helping me in walking training attendees through the architecture, the management concepts and what it takes to run containerized workloads using the advanced capabilities coming with Kubernetes on Azure. Knowing this AKS cluster got deployed about 20 months back, it also meant my setup was getting a little bit out-of-date.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, June 18, 2021

AKS ErrImagePull and ImagePullBackOff on AKS after a year

Hi all, I’ve deployed me an AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service environment that I use in my Azure training class deliveries almost every week (yes, every AZ-course touches on AKS and Containers…) The Problem My AKS environment was running fine all this time (a bit over a year), allowing me to rely on existing deployed Kubernetes services, as well as building new services as a live demo. Until this morning, where all of a sudden, my own services didn’t start at all, but the kube-system services did.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Tuesday, March 23, 2021

How to delete a POD from Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Hi again, In about every Azure training delivered the last few months, I am talking about Docker and Azure Kubernetes Services - AKS Along these months, the amount of “sample PODS” I am running within the Kubernetes cluster was continuously growing, resulting in a less efficient demo scenario to show. So cleaning up these running PODS was my 5 seconds action this Saturday morning. While not super hard, it actually took me a bit longer than 5 seconds (more like 10min :)), since I forgot a few “basics” on how Kubernetes is running PODS.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, June 6, 2020

Happy to announce my newest Azure book got (self) published

I’m excited about this next project that finally got live, thanks to a bit of quiet time during the Holidays. While it is not up to the full 100% of what I had in mind, I didn’t want to hold back the content any longer, since Azure is moving already that fast… The original idea of this material was based on a workshop I created for Microsoft Internal (Azure Developer Series) in Sept 2018 as a contractor, which was a combination of slides, videos and lab guides.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, January 3, 2020