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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. ...

Last month, 18th-21st of April, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe was happening in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and it was HUGE! With a fully sold out event, with more than 10000 in-person participants, 5000+ online participants and 20 parallell tracks, it has been the largest conference I’ve attended in-person so far. I attended the event wearing many hats: a speaker, KCD organizer, CNCF ambassador and an attendee. Having these roles gave me an even broader perspective of the event which I want to share with the community😺 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Let’s start today’s tech tip by identifying what a Kubernetes Context is. Kubernetes Context, which is also known as kubectl context, represents a Kubernetes cluster that kubectl command-line tool is currently targeting. You decide which Kubernetes cluster to set as active by modifying currently active context with kubectl config use-context <cluster_name> command. All the configured and available Kubernetes contexts are stored in a kubeconfig file. Kubeconfig file contains a collection of properties for every Kubernetes cluster that respective client is connected to - properties such as Kubernetes cluster name, authentication mechanisms, user/service account, etc. This information is used by kubectl command-line tool to connect to the API server of the respective cluster once it’s set as the active Kubernetes context. ...