In this blog post, I’m going to introduce you to AKS Edge Essentials (AKS EE), and show you how to run Super-Mario at the AKS EE cluster using Helm charts and GitOps.

I assume we all acknowledge the importance of following your cloud spend. And although Azure Portal’s Cost Management and Billing is a great tool for monitoring, allocating and optimizing Azure costs, sometimes there are needs to export the underlying data to be used in another external tool. Or maybe just for archival reasons.

Sometimes I need access to a proxy server, and in most cases the proxy should be located in a certain country or region. This is where all public cloud providers come in handy. In this blog article I’ll be spinning up and running Squid in Azure VM. Using Bicep template for automation to get rid of manual installation and configuration tasks.

There are times when I need to use or test something in Azure using a private and secure connection from my home office. This is where VPN connections come into the picture. I had an extra Raspberry Pi laying around and decided to use it as a vpn gateway for the site-to-site connection.

I know this blog post is long overdue. No excuses. Been to busy lazy.

Thanks for being here, let’s start with 101 on AKS defaults, nodes, pods and stuff.

I’m going to write some blog posts about my Kubernetes adventures, and the first thing I wanted to do, was to set up some scripts to build up a simple Kubernetes environment to play with. I will of course also play around with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), but I also want to run some experiments with control plane. This means I need to build my own cluster, as control plane in AKS is provided as a managed Azure service.