Published Apr 13, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

As we look at various APM and Logging tools, one suite that deserves attention is NewRelic.  New Relic is not a new player, having been founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne (anagram of ‘new relic’) and goi...

Published Apr 6, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Azure Arc is a preview feature for Azure that will let you manage in Azure resources outside of Azure.  So far they’ve discussed Arc for databases, servers and Kubernetes.  I was recently given acc...

Published Apr 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In my last missive I detailed out AKS and Ingress using NGinx Ingress Controllers. For public facing services this can be sufficient.  However, many businesses require tighter controls - either for...

Published Mar 28, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I wrote most of my Azure Kubernetes guides a while back in a time where Helm 2 was standard and RBAC was an optional add-in.  Recently when doing AKS work for work, I realized really how much has c...

Published Mar 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine posted to our slack this medium articleabout KEDA and Kafka.I wasn’t familiar with Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA)and wanted to find out more. It...

Published Mar 4, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

One thing that Kubernetes does particularly well is Layer 7 routing with Ingress.  If you have an HTTP/HTTPS service, there are a slew of tutorials out there as well as best practices for routing t...