6 Things I Like About Azure Managed Grafana

Grafana is an open source data visualization tool. It is the a popular choice with Kubernetes clusters. Azure Managed Grafana is a platform as a service offering that has been generally available in late summer or early fall. So it is relatively new at this point. I have had experience of building, configuring and operating …

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Azure Managed Grafana Setup with AKS

The following is a walk through of a quick setup of Azure Managed Grafana Instance and viewing performance graphs on applications running in Azure Kubernetes Service. This is a relatively new Azure platform service and the general documentation can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/managed-grafana/how-to-data-source-plugins-managed-identity?tabs=azure-portal I have had experience to build, configure and deploy Grafana into an …

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How To Mount Azure Key Vault Secret to Pods in Azure Kubernetes Service

Scenario: You require a pod to mount a secret stored in an Azure Key Vault. So that an application running in the pod can access the secret as a file and environment variable. Also manage the access security between the AKS cluster to the key vault using a user assigned managed identity. Background: To integrate …

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