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.
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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.
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