The process of upgrading an AKS cluster involves careful consideration due to its complexity, especially in production environments. Manual control plane and node pool upgrades are essential, requiring meticulous monitoring and careful planning. Consider the extensive documentation for detailed guidance.
This post showcases practical scenarios of using Azure Log Analytics Workspace to monitor the AKS Demo Store application with Azure Open AI for product descriptions. The post covers configuring settings, querying metrics and logs, and managing data usage for cost efficiency.
This blog post is a continuation of Deploying Azure Kubernetes Service Demo Store App with Azure Open AI – Part 1. It dives into the Python code that calls the Azure Open AI Service and highlights the use of Semantic Kernel. The AKS Demo Store uses the AI functionality to generate product descriptions. The article emphasizes the benefits of using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support AI Ops platform.
This blog series chronicles my experience deploying and learning the technical details of the AKS Demo Store App with Azure Open AI. The app uses AI to generate product descriptions, deployed in a Kubernetes architecture. It showcases Azure Open AI's potential and the future application focus.
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 …
Implementation scenario to establish autorotation of pod mounted key vault secrets and reloading pods to update environment variables of those secrets.
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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Objective: To provide key configuration parameters for the beginner when creating the Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure CLI. My design with related az aks create command configuration parameters. You can find the az aks create command’s documentation provides a list of about 60 parameters. az aks create --name --resource-group [--aad-admin-group-object-ids] [--aad-client-app-id] [--aad-server-app-id] [--aad-server-app-secret] [--aad-tenant-id] [--admin-username] …
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As announced, in this article Kubernetes resource view is in public preview, I will review and give my thoughts on this new feature Kubernetes Resource View in the Azure Portal compared to the OSS Kubernetes Dashboard (Web UI). A prerequisite is that the AKS Cluster needs to be enable Azure AD integration. The biggest convenience …
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Issue Background: With an Azure Kubernetes Service deployment (version 1.17.9) in my dev environment, I launch the Kubernetes Dashboard application and I can’t see any Kubernetes resources and I get the following error notification clusterroles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io is forbidden: User "clusterUser" cannot list resource "clusterroles" in API group "rbac.authorization.k8s.io" at the cluster scope I am attempting to …
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