Integrating Azure Key Vault with AKS via External Secrets Operator

Managing secrets centrally is a best practice in software development. Secrets should be stored and rotated in a central location, even when they are used by multiple components of an application. However, when secrets need to be accessed in different places, such as CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes, manually copying them can lead to errors and failures caused by human mistakes.

To address this in Kubernetes, we can use External Secrets Operators, which automatically sync secrets from external secret stores such as Azure Key Vaults into Kubernetes secrets. This removes the need for manual synchronization and reduces the risk of errors due to incorrect or outdated secrets.

Pre-requites:

• Azure Kubernetes Cluster
• Azure Key vault
• Managed identity

Enhance Your Azure Kubernetes Service Experience with GitHub Copilot Plugins

This blog explains how to use GitHub Copilot Chat to perform various Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) tasks, such as creating an AKS cluster and generating kubectl commands to interact with the cluster.

Prerequisites:

• GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot for Azure installed
• Azure Kubernetes Service extension for Visual Studio Code installed

Enabling Azure Container Storage Monitoring with Managed Prometheus

Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed monitoring solution in Azure Monitor. It allows us to collect Prometheus metrics from Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) clusters to monitor the workload.

This blog provides a guide on monitoring stateful workloads running on Azure Container Service within an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with managed Prometheus enabled.