June 4, 2026
Reading Time: 8 minutesMicrosoft recently released a public preview of cert-manager as an Azure Arc Kubernetes extension. The docs focus entirely on Arc-enabled clusters, which makes […]
May 18, 2026
Radius is an open-source, cloud-native application platform from the Azure Incubations team (Dapr, KEDA, Drasi) and a CNCF sandbox project. It works across Azure and AWS, […]
April 30, 2026
The 2026 State of Dapr report is out. Workflow API usage doubled year over year. 34% of developers are building AI agents on Dapr, 28% already […]
April 27, 2026
Reading Time: 7 minutesI spotted this in the AKS release notes recently and it is worth paying attention to if you are running multi-zone clusters. Microsoft […]
April 15, 2026
Reading Time: 10 minutesI spotted this one via the AKS Docs Tracker I built and run here on pixelrobots.co.uk. It picked up new docs appearing under […]
March 31, 2026
Reading Time: 4 minutesI picked this up from my AKS Docs Tracker when the docs page for Cluster Health Monitor appeared. It is currently in preview, […]
March 24, 2026
Reading Time: 8 minutesI have been waiting for something like this for a while. If you run AKS at any meaningful scale, one of the hardest […]
March 19, 2026
Reading Time: 5 minutesI spotted something land in the Azure CLI extensions repo this week. PR #9669 adds CLI support for App Routing Istio, including new […]
March 17, 2026
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been running AKS clusters in production for a long time. I’ve seen the same patterns play out over and over, someone stands […]
February 26, 2026
Reading Time: 8 minutesAfter writing about Ingress NGINX retiring in March 2026, I recommended a two-phase migration approach. Start with Application Routing add-on for quick stability, then […]
February 23, 2026
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve all been there. You upgrade a node pool, something breaks in production, and you’re left deciding whether to push forward with a […]
February 16, 2026
After deploying AKS KAITO Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Engine withe an embeddings model, I tested with many curl commands to index, update and query documents. I […]