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Using Ultra SSD Storage with Azure Kubernetes Service

In a previous post, I performed a storage performance benchmark of Azure Managed Disks and Azure Files for Azure Kubernetes Service. The testing included the now generally …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Azure NetApp Files Performance with Azure Kubernetes Service

In April of 2018, I was delegate for Cloud Field Day 3. One of the presenters was NetApp, and they showed off a few different services they had under development in the cloud …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Demystifying Azure AD Service Principals

Anyone who’s worked with Azure for a bit has encountered the need to create a service principal. If you are an IT Ops person, you probably equate an SP with a service account …

Ned Bellavance 10 min read
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Scaling the Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Stack

This is a follow-up to my post about the Kubernetes Cluster running on Azure Stack. In that post, I asked myself how to scale a deployed cluster and how to update the cluster. …

Ned Bellavance 3 min read
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Using Azure Speech Service with PowerShell

The 100th episode of Buffer Overflow - a weekly tech news podcast I host - is steadily approaching. As I write this, we are getting ready to record episode 98. In preparation for …

Ned Bellavance 5 min read
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Azure Stack Kubernetes Cluster is NOT AKS

If you’ve been test driving Azure Stack with a full stamp or just the ASDK, you may have decided to try out the Kubernetes Cluster template that is available in the …

Ned Bellavance 7 min read
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Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster on Azure Stack fails

I just finished updating my Azure Stack ASDK to the latest 1901 version. Before the upgrade I was messing around with the Kubernetes cluster offering, and I wanted to get that …

Ned Bellavance 4 min read
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Using Azure Active Directory Authentication with HashiCorp Vault – Part 2

This is the second and probably final post in this series. If you haven’t read the first post I would highly recommend it. When we last left our erstwhile heroes, they had …

Ned Bellavance 5 min read
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Using Azure Active Directory Authentication with HashiCorp Vault - Part 1

I am currently working on a Getting Started course for HashiCorp’s Vault product. There was a pretty cool demo I put together for using Azure AD as an authentication source …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read