Azure Container Apps: The beauty of Kubernetes without the horror of Kubernetes

If you've ever dived deep into the world of Kubernetes, you know the challenges it can present. While it's a powerful tool, maintaining Kubernetes can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming.…

Troubleshooting a pending pod in a Kubernetes cluster (AKS)

Last week I had an interesting issue with one of our clients AKS clusters, and in the spirit of sharing I thought I would document the solution and share my findings. I find that when it comes to issues in Kubernetes it’s usually not the solution itself that is the tricky part, which is usually just a single command line, but rather finding information and troubleshooting that I find is the most interesting to read about.…

Load Balancing Umbraco using Kubernetes

Something that’s been on my mind for quite some time now is how Umbraco fits in the world of Kubernetes and Containerization. See there’s this notion that Kubernetes and stateful applications such as a CMS do not go hand in hand, but what if they could?…

Docker Deep Dive

I want to recommend a really great book for anyone who wants to learn or become better at Docker. See I’m not a Docker ninja, I’ve fiddled with Docker on a few occasions but I never really had the pleasure of being involved in a project where I would need to use it. So my knowledge hasn’t really gone any deeper than the basics.…

Rotating certificates in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Every once and a while certificates on the Azure Kubernetes Service need to be rotated. If you dont you will receive this error when you try to connect to a cluster.…

Configuring a TLS certificate in Kubernetes

This week I was given the assignment to update a TLS certificate on one of our Kubernetes clusters from a .pfx file and so I though I would share how I solved it and hopefully it can help someone else in the same situation.…