I’m studying for my CKAD exam, so this article is serving as a reference for me to cover the core concepts in that exam. This article will cover Pods, Namespaces, the kubectl CLI tool, and how we can use it to create objects in Kubernetes. Kubernetes Primitives These are the basic building blocks in Kubernetes for building and operating applications that you host on it. These could include Pod, Deployments, Services etc...
Kubernetes provides reliable scheduling of fault-tolerant application workloads, and is ideal for container orchestration. AKS is a managed Kubernetes platform on Azure, which makes this simpler for us manage our container workloads. In this blog post, I’ll talk about the main components of Azure Kubernetes, such as control plane nodes, node pools, pods, deployments etc. I’ll also talk about how we can configure network access in AKS, and how we can monitor our AKS clusters....
Earlier on this week, I gave a presentation to two user groups on the Radius project. If you want to check them out you can view them here: This one is from Coding Nights NZ, run by Microsoft MVP Marcel Medina: The other is from the Azure Community Enthusiasts User Group, run by Microsoft MVP Nicholas Chang: Following these two talks, I wanted to write a blog post on setting up a basic Radius application on a Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, which is what we’ll go through now 🙂...
About mid-April, the Azure Container Apps team announced a public preview of a new hosting plan and pricing structure for hosting your Container Apps. By default, there was a Serverless consumption hosting plan which you can use to host your Container Apps. This provided support for scale-to-zero scenarios and you’d only pay for resources that your application would use. With the Dedicated hosting plan now in preview, you still have the option of having a fully managed environment for hosting your Container Apps with scale-to-zero capabilities, but in addition to this you can also run applications with customized hardware using Dedicated workload profiles....
Azure Container Apps manages automatic horizontal scaling through declarative scaling rules. We can scale out our container apps based on a variety of different scalers. I recorded a video over the weekend covering how scaling works in Azure Container Apps, what KEDA is and how to set scaling rules within Azure Container Apps, using HTTP and Azure Queue storage scale rules as an example. If you prefer reading rather than watching, continue reading this post....