Retrying Bicep Resource Deployments with the @retryOn Decorator
Use Bicep’s @retryOn decorator to retry resource deployments for selected transient Azure errors, with a practical role assignment example and the limits to keep in mind.
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Why We Stayed with the Cluster Autoscaler on AKS
Our AKS NAP evaluation showed a trade-off between consolidation and daily financial calculations inside Deployment pods. Here is why we kept CAS for now.
Making the AKS Control Plane Less of a Black Box with Managed Prometheus
A Terraform demo for enabling AKS control plane metrics, tuning Prometheus collection, and exploring API server and etcd dashboards in Azure Managed Grafana.
Testing AKS Node Auto Provisioning: When Our Managed Disk Policy Blocked Every New Node
While evaluating a move from the cluster autoscaler to Node Auto Provisioning (NAP) on AKS, no nodes were created. NAP quietly fell back from ephemeral OS disks to managed disks, and our Azure Policy denied them.
AKS Desktop: A Hands-On Tour of Microsoft's New Desktop App for Kubernetes
What AKS desktop actually does — Projects, guided deployments without YAML, a natural-language AI troubleshooting assistant, and a built-in plugin catalog — walked through as a demo you can reproduce on your own cluster.
Replicating Harbor on AKS to Azure Container Registry
Configure push-based Harbor replication to Azure Container Registry using a repository-scoped ACR token, resource filters, and event-based triggers.