Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)

#CloudNative Advocate | Microsoft Azure MVP | | #CloudFamily | Community | Works at @Interceptbv | Tweets are my own

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

After years of running AKS in production (and learning the hard way), I wrote a book about the decisions that really matter.

📘 The AKS Book: Every AKS Decision That Will Save You a Cluster Rebuild

It’s out now.

More info 👇
https://t.co/mqayNlA1Na

#AKS #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes

[Vinícius Apolinário 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @vrapolinario]

🚨 Another #MSLearn content for you: Introduction to #Azure #Copilot

🔗 https://t.co/CMelKJyPh6

A quick Microsoft Learn module to help you understand the value and use cases of Azure Copilot!
Check it out!

#AzOps #ITPro

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

@blogher_ try this https://t.co/kNPr3rOq0I

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

If you have ever had policy checks slow down admission or felt governance was fighting your AKS operations, this Azure Policy update is worth your attention.

Microsoft has introduced Kubernetes-native policy validation in Azure Policy using CEL and Validating Admission Policy (VAP).
Short version: validation now runs in the Kubernetes API server, not an external webhook path.

Why that matters:

• Faster admission decisions
• Better reliability with stronger fail-close behavior
• Simpler policy logic using CEL
• You still keep Azure Policy governance controls: assignments, scope, compliance tracking, safe rollout, and overrides

The pattern is clean:
CEL handles what to validate.
Azure Policy handles how to govern it at scale.

If you run platform engineering for AKS, this is a big step forward for guardrails without extra operational drag.

https://t.co/Z9qJu4tQab

#Azure #AKS #Kubernetes #AzurePolicy #PlatformEngineering #CloudGovernance

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: https://t.co/1Ijmq1ofAi.

Reserve yours now at https://t.co/PWoXi3plbX

[Anthony Bartolo @WirelessLife]

Running agents on Kubernetes with Kars means treating each one as an untrusted workload: its own sandbox, no standing credentials, no direct egress, and every model or tool call brokered and audited.

Would you ship without that boundary?
https://t.co/MfGJkXKipT

[Chris Aniszczyk @cra]

schedule comes out tomorrow :)

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

@mrcoups @IntCyberDigest Ouch!

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

AKS upgrades and Pod Disruption Budgets have always had an awkward relationship. 🤔

Missing PDBs mean pods can be evicted all at once. Overly strict PDBs block the drain entirely. And if a deployment just does not have enough replicas to absorb one eviction, even a correctly configured PDB can stall an upgrade. I have been on the wrong side of all three.

Microsoft has shipped Automatic PDB Management for AKS, currently in preview. It watches for deployments without PDBs and creates them automatically. During node drain, if a PDB blocks eviction, it temporarily scales up replicas to satisfy the budget and then scales back down once the drain completes. 🔄

I have written up how it works, how it coordinates with HPA and KEDA (including the unsupported combination to watch out for), what the configuration options look like, and what to test before you enable it.

Still preview, so staging before production. But it targets a real operational pain point. 🔗 https://t.co/3DubzJkEKA

#AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #DevOps #PlatformEngineering

[Hayden Barnes @unixterminal]

Azure Linux is now available on WSL https://t.co/tr6ARDKQ8B

[Daniel Neumann @neumanndaniel]

Safe Cilium rollout with Cast Off https://t.co/e6nHMNGu42 #Cilium #Kubernetes

[Jan De Dobbeleer @jandedobbeleer]

What's new in Oh My Posh: a live Studio editor linked to the Configurator (@JamesMontemagno), native git status for a much faster prompt, a background daemon for instant renders, and a binary trimmed by ~30%. Faster and lighter, across the board. https://t.co/Nce8K2v4WW

[Luke Murray @lukemurraynz]

Execution Ledger built on Rust with Drasi support.

Durable job orchestration for Azure. Step-level idempotency, replay, skip, and compensate controls. Tenant-scoped API with Entra ID auth. Connector packs for REST, queue, blob, SFTP etc.

https://t.co/hJE5yz4pLr

[GitHub @github]

We thought this whole teleporting business would be ... easier?

[John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @JohnLokerse]

🚀 New blog! Are you copying the same Azure Bicep parameter values across development, test, acceptance, and production? You can now reduce duplication with the extendable Bicep parameter feature!

🔗 Read the blog post here: https://t.co/JIvrRAAaKv

#azure #azurebicep

[Nicholas Chang @nick_cloudops]

🚀 Azure & GitHub Community Day

We are excited to announce that we are hosting Azure & GitHub Community Day on 10th November at Microsoft Dublin. This year’s theme is GitHub, Azure, and AI.

If you’re passionate about Azure, GitHub, or AI and have a story worth sharing, we love to hear from you. This is your chance to inspire others and share your experience with the community.

The call for speakers opens tomorrow.
Submit your session: https://t.co/tg0GTq2LuO

@kgreeneit @azure_alan #Github #Azure #AI

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

@CloudNativeFdn Has to be https://t.co/DzNZnX5hvY especially now it has a headlamp plugin.

[Headlamp K8s UI ☸ @headlamp_ui]

Headlamp 0.44.0 is out 🚀
💪 Scales past 30k pods; responsive Map; 1k‑chunk Pod lists, and more.
💤 No more auto‑connecting to multiple clusters on startup.
✨ New forms for DaemonSets, CronJobs, ReplicaSets, etc.

99+ fixes from 100+ contributors.

https://t.co/LGRqlZyaiV

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

@zig_max Not jealous at all. Hope you are enjoying it!

[Azure Support @AzureSupport]

📌 Keep your AKS clusters supported and secure!
🛡️ Track supported Kubernetes versions
🔄 Plan upgrades with confidence
📅 Stay ahead of release & support timelines
Start here 👉 https://t.co/phMXk9MdG3 #Azure #AKS #Kubernetes"

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

@nick_cloudops Ouch.