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Following the retirement of classic Application Insights in February 2024 I think that it鈥檚 a great opportunity to share a quick tip on how you can easily automate migration of all of your classic instances to workspace-based Application Insights. There鈥檚 a pretty detailed article available as part of Microsoft documentation that walks you through the advantages of workspace-based Application Insights, differences with the classic type and how the table structure differs between those two types. I will not cover it in much detail in this blog post, but I would encourage you to check out the article for more information on the topic: Migrate to workspace-based Application Insights resources. ...
馃巹This blog post is also a contribution to Festive Tech Calendar 2023, where during the month of December, experts from the tech community share their knowledge about a multitude of tech topics. As part of this initiative you can also support a fundraising for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. You鈥檙e welcome to check out all the contributions here: Festive Tech Calendar 2023 Kubernetes release cycle and its challenges As you might know since the beginning of time Kubernetes has been known for its quite frequent release cycle. With approximately 4 releases of new Kubernetes versions per year a specific version was supported for 9 months until Kubernetes version 1.18. With Kubernetes version 1.19 community support got extended by 3 months. At the time of publishing this blog post a specific version of Kubernetes is supported for 1 year. Support in this case means patching of security-related, dependency-related or other critical core issues. ...
For some time ago I successfully passed a Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification exam from CNCF and The Linux Foundation, and in this blog post I would like to share a few resources I鈥檝e used for preparation, as well as a few personal experiences from the certification exam and format, that I hope can be useful for others who are getting ready for the exam 馃樅 What is KCNA? Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) is one of the beginner-level certifications that verifies your fundamental knowledge of cloud native technologies. Significant part of the certification is dedicated to Kubernetes, its architecture and core components, but it also covers areas like containerization, GitOps and fundamental cloud native security. ...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 is under a week away and I thought I would use this opportunity to share some of the personal reflections for the upcoming event, as well as highlight some of the sessions that I personally am looking forward to watching. Myself and Michael have also chatted about the event at Kubernetes Unpacked podcast - do check out this episode as well: Prepping For KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2023. ...
This blog post is a contribution to Azure Back to School - an annual community event taking place in September. For the Community by the Community, during the whole month of September, contributors share their knowledge and experience about Azure. You鈥檙e welcome to check out all the contributions here: 2023 Azure Back to School Session Schedule Introduction Chaos engineering has been known to the tech industry for quite many years now, but it has gained significant popularity and wider adoption during the last few years. There are good reasons for why this acceleration has happened. If we take a look at a modern software development landscape we will see that we鈥檙e steadily building more complex, distributed systems and applications, with hundreds or even thousands of dependencies and interconnections. Ensuring that all of these bits and pieces play nicely together to provide availability, stability and security of our systems at all times is a challenge that鈥檚 not for the faint-hearted. ...