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🎄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’re 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. ...

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’re 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’re 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’s not for the faint-hearted. ...

Introduction When working with Kubernetes there may be cases where you may need to use port forwarding to get access to an application running inside the cluster. Some of the use cases may be: accessing information in internal applications that are not meant to be exposed for public access verifying that the application works as expected prior to exposing it for public access troubleshooting purposes Port forwarding is a functionality that is available in Kubernetes via kubectl port-forward command. This command creates a direct connection between the caller (typically a client machine) and the Pod where the application is running inside the cluster. You can either target a specific Pod or any Pod fronted by Kubernetes resources like Service or Deployment. You can read more about the command in official documentation: port-forward. ...

I’ve been in quite a pickle recently: I needed to find out how many and what Azure Policy definitions from Guest Configuration category are currently assigned to my subscription, so that I could understand if any of those policies are applicable to Azure Arc-enabled servers that are residing in the same subscription. Why? Well, because Guest Configuration is a billed functionality, when it comes to Azure Arc. In this case it’s good to get an overview if any policies related to the billed functionality are enabled in order to further evaluate if you want to use this functionality or not (and therefore disable it to avoid undesired billing). You may also have different use cases for why you would want to retrieve the same information from Azure Policy🧐 ...