Virtual WAN static routes redistribution

Azure Virtual WAN is one of the networking options offered by Azure, and routing inside of Virtual WAN has become a sort of dark art with the many supported options. Some years ago Routing Intent (also known as Routing Policies) was introduced to simplify routing, but at times you need to go back to the … Continue reading Virtual WAN static routes redistribution

Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (4)

This post will explore the new support in Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) for the overlay network option in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as documented in https://aka.ms/agc/overlay, as well as whether you can see traffic between AGC and AKS with VNet Flow Logs. This blog is part of a series: What am I talking … Continue reading Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (4)

Grafana and VNet Flow Logs

I would like to credit for this blog post to Abhishek Sharma, talking to him gave me the main inspiration for some of the concepts you are going to see below. Heartfelt thanks go as well to Niti Gupta, a kickass Microsoft engineer who can make Azure Monitor Workbooks really dance and who gave me … Continue reading Grafana and VNet Flow Logs

Azure Fleet load balancing: not what you think

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is a very interesting solution that allows you to deploy code to multiple clusters at the same time. I am not going to stir up the debate here of whether this approach is better or worse than GitOps or CD pipeline parametrization, but instead I am going to look in detail … Continue reading Azure Fleet load balancing: not what you think

Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (3)

This post will take you one step further from the hello-world configuration that I described in the first post by adding TLS end-to-end, a scenario described in the public docs here. This blog is part of a series: TL;DR If you don’t have much time the diagram below, which is an extended version of the … Continue reading Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (3)