Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)

After years of running AKS in production (and learning the hard way), I wrote a book about the decisions that really matter. 📘 The AKS Book: Every AKS Decision That Will Save You a Cluster Rebuild It’s out now. More info 👇 pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/th… #AKS #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes

🚀 KubeBuddy v0.0.38 is out! ☸️ This release focuses on more accurate findings and clearer evidence, helping you spend less time chasing false positives. 🔍 Improved AKS checks for dashboard status, system-pool node counts, autoscaling and managed identities. 🧹 Smarter Kubernetes findings for built-in namespaces, ServiceAccounts, Service selectors and aggregated RBAC roles. 🛡️ Better root-user detection, respecting inherited security settings without creating findings for containers that don’t exist. 💾 More useful unused-PVC findings, showing when a PVC became unused where Kubernetes provides that information. 🖥️ Includes Headlamp plugin 0.5.3, plus Go dependency updates. Upgrade, rerun your scans, and explore the changes 👇 github.com/KubeDeckio/KubeBu… #Kubernetes #AKS #Azure #OpenSource #KubeBuddy #Headlamp

A few updates to my AKS Docs Tracker! 🚀 Microsoft has announced plans to retire most public Microsoft Learn documentation repositories, so I’ve changed how the tracker gets its documentation updates. Instead of relying on GitHub PRs, it now snapshots published Microsoft Learn pages and compares the article content. Tracking can continue without those public repos, reflecting changes in the docs you actually read. While making that switch, I’ve also added: 🐧 Azure Linux documentation tracking. ⚡ A dedicated AKS Automatic category. 🔎 Expandable change details so you can see what changed. 🤖 Improved AI summaries based directly on article diffs, with metadata-only edits filtered out. Documentation checks run every six hours, with the weekly digest continuing as usual. AKS releases, App Net release notes and CVE tracking keep their existing sources. Big thanks to @merill for learn-mirror, which powers the new documentation collection. Check it out 👇 pixelrobots.co.uk/aks-docs-t… Microsoft’s announcement: techcommunity.microsoft.com/… #AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #AzureLinux

🚀 AKS release notes tell you what changed. Getting in a room with the people building it lets you ask why. My recent posts covered some AKS changes that caught my attention, including Node Pool Rollback, availability zone placement, and more control over LTS upgrades. But reading about a feature is only part of the story. What problem was the team trying to solve? Why did they take that approach? What should you consider before using it in production? That’s the kind of conversation I’m looking forward to at Microsoft Azure Day with Kubernetes, ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. If you work with AKS, there’s a lot to get out of the day: ✅ Hear directly from Microsoft product managers and engineering teams about AKS, with practical insights and best practices. ✅ Join the afternoon roundtables to go beyond the announcement, ask questions, and share what you’re seeing in your own environments. ✅ Or take the hands-on lab path and spend the afternoon learning by doing, with help available when you need it. I’ll be proctoring the labs, so if you’re coming along, please come and say hello. I’d love to hear what you’re building, and help you work through something new. 📍 Salt Lake City Marriott City Center 📅 Monday, 9 November 2026 🎟️ Free, in-person event Bring the questions the release notes didn’t answer. Request your spot 👇 aksday.eventbuilder.com/even… #AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #KubeCon #CloudNative