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Why You Should Never Lock AKS-Managed Resources: A Volume Outage Story
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Why You Should Never Lock AKS-Managed Resources: A Volume Outage Story

A real incident from our AKS platform: resource locks on AKS-managed Azure disks silently broke the CSI driver during a node drain, leaving pods stuck without volumes. Here's what went wrong and what we should have done instead.

Kasun Rajapakse May 13, 2026
My Experience as Technical Reviewer of "The Ultimate Docker Container Book"
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My Experience as Technical Reviewer of "The Ultimate Docker Container Book"

Reflections on reviewing a 600+ page deep dive into Docker, Kubernetes, and managed cloud container platforms — what stood out, what I learned, and who the book is for.

Kasun Rajapakse Apr 28, 2026
Rescuing an AKS Namespace Stuck in Terminating State
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Rescuing an AKS Namespace Stuck in Terminating State

A real-world story: how a nightly cleanup pipeline got blocked by a namespace stuck in Terminating, and the kubectl proxy + finalizer trick that finally got it unstuck.

Kasun Rajapakse Apr 27, 2026
Azure Application Gateway for Containers on AKS with the Gateway API
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Azure Application Gateway for Containers on AKS with the Gateway API

A hands-on walkthrough of deploying Application Gateway for Containers on AKS using the Kubernetes Gateway API, with a practical look at the managed and BYO deployment models.

Kasun Rajapakse Apr 24, 2026
How I Use GitHub Copilot and GitHub Pages to Run This Blog
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How I Use GitHub Copilot and GitHub Pages to Run This Blog

A non-technical look at how I use GitHub Copilot as a writing partner and GitHub Pages as my publishing platform — and why the combination keeps me shipping.

Kasun Rajapakse Apr 23, 2026

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Kasun Rajapakse

Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer with expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure.

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