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Recently a new property became available in Azure Portal when creating a new Azure Kubernetes Service instance: Have you seen it and do you know what it actually is? Wait, does AKS have pricing tiers?! I thought that the only price we need to pay was based on the chosen VM SKU for AKS Nodes….right?🤨 Well, the answer is yes and no.😺 By default AKS is a free service and you only pay for the virtual machines you choose for your Nodes, plus associated storage and networking resources. There are nevertheless some additional billed capabilities that can be enabled, like Uptime SLA, which is now more streamlined with visibility in Azure Portal. ...

A thought struck me one day when I was working with onboarding machines to Azure Arc. If you want to onboard multiple servers at scale to Azure Arc, you would need a Service Principal with Azure Connected Machine Onboarding role in the respective subscription or resource group where you want to create Azure Arc-enabled servers. An interesting thing here is: what if you would like to re-use the same service principal in order to onboard more Azure Arc resources but to another subscription and/or another resource group? ...

Introduction of the issue [Update July 2023] This issue has been resolved and you should be able to create a Kubernetes resource targeting Azure Kubernetes Service in Azure DevOps Environments in the same way as before. Official documentation has been updated with additional details: Kubernetes resource With release of Kubernetes version 1.24 a new feature gate has come to life which is called LegacyServiceAccountTokenNoAutoGeneration, and it is enabled by default. What this feature does is that Secret API objects containing service account tokens are no longer auto-generated for every ServiceAccount. You can read more details about this change in release notes: CHANGELOG-1.24 ...

🎄This blog post is also a contribution to Azure Advent Calendar where during December, experts from the tech community share their knowledge through contributions of a specific technology in the Azure domain. You’re welcome to check out all the contributions here: Azure Advent Calendar Have you already seen “Automatic upgrade” property when creating a new AKS cluster in Azure Portal?😺 ...

Linting tools, aka linters, can help you write better and cleaner code early in the software development lifecycle. Linter is a tool that scans existing and new code for potential errors, bad and insecure patterns and violations of the respective programming language best practices. In most cases you can install a linter as an IDE extension so that you can get notified about potential issues during local development, long before the code is checked in to your source code base. ...