Auteur/autrice : zigmax

AKS | Pricing Tiers

Hi!

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now offering two pricing tiers for cluster management: the Free tier and the Standard tier.

Free tierStandard tier
When to use• You want to experiment with AKS at no extra cost
• You’re new to AKS and Kubernetes		• You’re running production or mission-critical workloads and need high availability and reliability
• You need a financially backed SLA
Supported cluster types• Development clusters or small scale testing environments
• Clusters with fewer than 10 nodes		• Enterprise-grade or production workloads
• Clusters with up to 5,000 nodes
Pricing• Free cluster management
• Pay-as-you-go for resources you consume		• Pay-as-you-go for resources you consume
Feature comparison• Recommended for clusters with fewer than 10 nodes, but can support up to 1,000 nodes
• Includes all current AKS features		• Uptime SLA is enabled by default
• Greater cluster reliability and resources
• Can support up to 5,000 nodes in a cluster
• Includes all current AKS features
# Create a new AKS cluster in the Free tier 
az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --no-uptime-sla 

# Create a new AKS cluster in the Standard tier 
az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --uptime-sla

# Update an existing cluster to the Free tier
az aks update --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --no-uptime-sla

# Update an existing cluster to the Standard tier
az aks update --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --uptime-sla

Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/free-standard-pricing-tiers

Maxime.

Happy New Year 2023!

Hi!

I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous New Year 2023! I hope this is going to be an exceptional year for all of us. I will continue to write articles, blog-post about the Azure Security stack (Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, AKS/Kubernetes). I think to add more articles related to multi-cloud (GCP). Lot of organizations will move forward with a multi-cloud strategy in 2023.

I absolutely love giving talks, sharing thoughts and having a good conversation with a group of like-minded people. If you’re interested let me know! Please find my upcoming speaking engagements for 2023.

All the best for the coming year, and I hope to see you in person as soon as possible! .

Maxime.

Azure Policy | Deny Action

Hi,

In this new article, I will share with you a new Azure Policy action: « Deny Action ». DenyAction is used to block requests on intended action to resources. The only supported action today is DELETE. This effect will help prevent any accidental deletion of critical resources.

This new Azure Policy action could help you to remove the Lock Type « Delete » in place at the Resource Group level.

Please find below an example:

{
   "if": {
      "allOf": [
         {
            "field": "type",
            "equals": "Microsoft.DocumentDb/accounts"
         },
         {
            "field": "tags.environment",
            "equals": "prod"
         }
      ]
   },
   "then": {
      "effect": "DenyAction",
      "details": {
         "actionNames": [ "delete" ],
         "cascadeBehaviors": { "resourceGroup": "deny" }
      }
   }
}

Maxime.