#Azure Policy | Kasun Rajapakse

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.

Kasun Rajapakse Oct 7, 2026

Azure AKS Kubernetes

When Good Policies Break Monitoring: How an Azure Policy Silently Broke Our AKS Pipeline

An AKS incident from our deployment pipeline: Azure Monitor addons moved to a cluster extension-based backend — and a sensible Azure Policy that blocked extensions suddenly broke our AKS provisioning with no warning.

Kasun Rajapakse May 26, 2026