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Publish Ascii Documentation to Confluence via Azure Pipelines
We can use AsciiDoc to write technical documentation. However, confluence is a popular wiki to keep the documentation related to software projects. In this blog let's look at how to publish AsciiDoc...
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Deploying Azure Managed Grafana with Terraform
Grafana can be used to setup monitoring and alerting with AKS. Azure provide an option to setup managed grafana dashboard, which can be integrated with managed protheus for AKS. In this post let's...
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Cleanup Strategy for Azure Container Registry Based on Azure Pipeline...
We generally use Azue container registry to store our application docker images when we use AKS as the ochestrator for our applications. However, piling up of previous releases images, as well as...
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Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts with C# Using DefaultAzureCredential
Copying a blob between Azure storage account without downloading the blob locally is realy simple with azcopy command. Now using Azure.Storage.Blobs we can copy blobs between Azure sotrages without...
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Use Dynamic Block Conditionally in Terraform
Dynamic block allows to create nested multi level block structures in terraform code. Conditional usage of such blocks are really useful in many scenarios. For example, when we create Azure Cosmos DB,...
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Setup Azure File Share Capacity Alert to Slack with Terraform
Setting up an Azure File Share capacity alert is useful to know when you reach at least 80% of allocated quota for the file share. This will give the teams ample time to increase the allocation to...
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Resolving "ERROR: Account has previously been signed out of this...
While trying to execute terraform plan locally after an az login we sometimes envounter below error.│ Error: populating Resource Provider cache: listing Resource Providers: loading results:...
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Disable Soft Delete for Azure File Shares with Terraform
Azure file shares can be used as mounted persisted volume in AKS clusters to provide necessary storage to pods in AKS. Azure file shares are enabled with soft delete for files by default. However,...
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Use Dynamic Block Conditionally in Terraform with a Nested Block
We have discussed usage of dynamic blocks conditionally in terraform in the post "Use Dynamic Block Conditionally in Terraform". Sometimes we need to use dynamic with nested blocks. In this post look...
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Use AKS Workload Identity to Login with "az login" in a Container with Azure CLI
We have discussed "Setting Up Azure Workload Identity for Containers in Azure Kubernetes Services" previously. We can use Azure CLI to interact with Azure resources in a container which is using base...
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Using "grep" with "kubectl logs" to Filter Container/Pod Logs
kubectl logs command helps us to inspect logs of pods in AKS/kubernetes and useful to diagnose issues. However, when there is too much logs it is harder to read through and find out errors easily....
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Setting Up Alert for AKS Pod Restarts Using Log Analytics Workspace and Grafana
Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) pod restarts can be obtained from the KubePodInventory of the connected log analytics workspace. This data can be depicted in a graph in grafana as described in the...
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Gracefully Shut Down dotnet 8 IHostedService App - Deployed as a Windows...
Applications implemented with IHostedService in dotnet, deployed to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) as containers in pods get terminated when pod recheduling happens or scaling-in opertaions happen....
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Windows Nanoserver Image Pre Stop Hook to Avoid 502 for Requests
The pods deployed to AKS gets terminated due to reschduling, low priority evictions as well as during scaled in. We can add a termination grase period and pre stop sleep time as shown below in Linux...
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Windows AKS Scaled Jobs Handle Graceful Termination for dotnet App using...
We have discussed "Gracefully Shut Down dotnet 8 IHostedService App - Deployed as a Windows Container in AKS - While Scale In or Pod Deallocations" previously. The approach works fine for pods...
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Linux AKS Scaled Jobs Handle Graceful Termination for dotnet App using...
We have discussed "Windows AKS Scaled Jobs Handle Graceful Termination for dotnet App using IHostedService When Preemption" previously. However, for Linux scaled jobs we have to handle the graceful...
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List All Pods and Their Priority Classes with kubectl
Sometmes it would be necessery to identify which priority classes are used in each pod in a kubernetes environment, specially to plan and reorganize priorities in apps deployed. Let's look at a query...
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Setting Up RabbitMQ Cluster Operator and Topology Operator via Azure...
Using operators to setup RabbitMQ cluster in AKS (kubernetes) is a recomended approach. There are two RabbitMQ operators we need to deploy into AKS for setting up a RabbitMQ cluster and managing...
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Setting Up RabbitMQ Cluster in AKS Using RabbitMQ Cluster Operator
We have discused "Setting Up RabbitMQ Cluster Operator and Topology Operator via Azure Pipelines in AKS" in the previous post. The deployed cluster oprator in AKS can be used deploy a RabbitMQ...
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Resolve "System.NotSupportedException: Globalization Invariant Mode is not...
You may encounter exception "System.NotSupportedException: Globalization Invariant Mode is not supported" in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in Linux Alpine docker images. Exception details are as...
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