AKS Me Anything: Insights into Azure Kubernetes Service Engineering

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Season 2, Jorge talks to Jianpeng Zeng about AKS non-disruptive Upgrade experience. Discover cluster upgrades features, including the new cordon node behavior that helps simplify non-disruptive upgrades, handle PDB blocks, and offer more granular control over agent pools. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share your feedback on topics you'd like to se...

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Season 2, Jorge talks to Mariano Uvalle about AKS Management Plane. Discover how the team streamlines feature releases for internal AKS engineers, the challenges faced with legacy Helm versions, and the innovative open-source solution "Eno" that enables code-based component definitions and improved test coverage. Don't forget to like, subscribe, an...

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Season 2, Jorge talks to Mitch Shao about AKS Cluster Health monitoring. Discover how this component proactively monitors the cluster control plane from the customer's perspective, including API server checks, DNS resolution, and metric server health. Understand Cluster Health Monitoring as it stands today and the future plans for this feature.#kubernetes #a...

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Season 2, Jorge talks to Chase Miller about reliability on Azure Kubernetes Service. Learn about Node Problem Detector (NPD), Strategies for handling file system issues, importance of seamless AI workload management and much more. Chase also talks about how the innovations worked on by his team benefit all customers - from startups to enterprises by providing a...

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Season 2, Jorge talks to Toddy Mladenov about Azure Container Registry. Toddy talks about recent improvements to Azure Container Registry (ACR), differences between RBAC & ABAC and the Connected registry feature that allows you to extend ACR to on-premises. #kubernetes #azurekubernetesservice #containerregistry

Starting up the Season 2 of AKS Me Anything. To kick off, Jorge sits down with Ximeng Zhao and talks about Managed Namespaces in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Explore the latest features of Managed Namespaces in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), learn how managed namespaces provide secure boundaries, default network policies, resource quotas, and easy rollbacks—all managed through Azure Resource M...

Join us for a finale episode of "AKS Me Anything" Season 1. Throughout the season 1, you have seen our familiar studio background. Today we decode for you what lies on that whiteboard as Jorge sits with Robin Deeboonchai to explore Node Auto Provisioning and Karpenter. Robin shares insights on backend challenges, the evolution of bootstrapping VMs, and the integration with the AKS contro...

Join us for another episode of "AKS Me Anything" as we sit down with Mitch Connors from the Istio team to explore the future of Kubernetes networking. Discover how managed service mesh offerings are simplifying security, encryption, and operational complexity for AKS users. Learn about mutual TLS, zero trust principles, and the evolution of Istio’s ambient mode, plus how these innovations support...

Join us for another episode of "AKS Me Anything" as we sit down with João Vieira from the Embedded Escalation Engineering Team. The Embedded team is the highest escalation team on the Microsoft support and deal with complex support cases. In this session, João shares insights on complex AKS troubleshooting, the use of AI and some interesting support cases they have seen recently. Stay tuned for mo...

Join us for another episode of "AKS Me Anything" as we sit down with Pradeep Kumar C (PKC) from the Embedded Escalation Engineering Team. The Embedded team is the highest escalation team on the Microsoft support and deal with complex support cases. In this session, PKC shares insights on what this team does and some interesting support cases they have seen recently. Stay tuned for more updates, an...

Join us for another episode of "AKS Me Anything" as we sit down with Allan from the control plane team to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In this session, Alan shares insights on scaling and reliability for AKS control plane and etcd. Stay tuned for more updates, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and check out our podcast and TikTok for more AKS content! AKS B...

Join us for another episode of "AKS Me Anything" featuring Xinyue Wang where Jorge & Xinyue talk about AKS resource provider team (RP). Don't miss out on these valuable insights coming directly from the AKS engineers! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave your comments below!#aks #kubernetes #azure #microsoftazure #podcast #lts

Join us for an insightful episode of "AKS Me Anything" featuring Peng Gao. In this video, Jorge & Peng discusses the Kubernetes version upgrades and AKS LTS support. Learn about the best practices for upgrades and how to manage the LTS versions. Don't miss out on these valuable insights! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave your comments below!#aks #kubernetes #azure #microsoftazure #pod...

Join us for an insightful episode of "AKS Me Anything" featuring Yi Zhang, the engineering manager of the AKS Resource Provider (AKSRP) team. In this video, Jorge & Yi discusses the critical role of the AKSRP team in managing API server operations for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Learn about the team's recent efforts to improve the speed and success rate of cluster operations, the risks inv...

Join us for an insightful episode of "Ask Me Anything" featuring Neha Aggarwal, an engineering manager on the Azure Container Networking team. In this session, Jorge and Neha discuss the team's role in bringing container networking to AKS clusters, the benefits of Azure CNI overlay powered by Cilium, and recent feature releases in the Azure Container Networking Services suite. Learn...

In this episode, Jorge Palma talks to Fuyuan Bie about traffic management within AKS. #aks #kubernetes #azure #azurekubernetes #cloudcomputing #interview #technology #podcast #networking AKS Me Anything: Fuyuan Bie: Episode 6 (Azure Kubernetes Service)

In this episode, Jorge Palma talks to Paul Miller about everything about AKS Networking. #aks #kubernetes #azure #azurekubernetes #cloudcomputing #interview #technology #podcastAKS Me Anything: Paul Miller: Episode 5 (Azure Kubernetes Service)

In this episode, Jorge Palma talks to Charlie Li about GPU Scheduling, Confidential VMs, Managed Namespaces and a lot more #aks #kubernetes #azure #azurekubernetes #cloudcomputing #interview #technology #podcast

Jorge Palma talks to Liqian Luo about managing large number of clusters using Fleet Manager. #aks #kubernetes #azure #azurekubernetes #cloudcomputing #interview #technology #podcast

In this episode of AKS Me Anything, Azure Kubernetes Service PM Jorge Palma sits down with Ye Wang (Principal Software Engineer) to discuss how the AKS team is investing in behind-the-scenes reliability improvements that are transparent to users. They chat about the “small things” happening under the hood that make your AKS experience smoother and more robust. 🚀Whether you’re running critical wor...

🚀 AKS Me Anything - Inside the Azure Kubernetes Service Team! 🚀Ever wondered what it's like to work on the AKS Team? 🤔 Join us for the first episode of our exciting new series, "AKS Me Anything," where Jorge Palma, the leader of the experiences team within the Azure Kubernetes Service team, takes us on an exclusive journey behind the scenes! 🎥In this series, we dive into the daily lives of our...