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 see covered next! #kubernetes #azurekubernetesservice #reliability

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, and share your feedback on topics you'd like to see covered next! Related Links: https://github.com/azure/eno#kubernetes #azurekubernetesservice #reliability

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 #azurekubernetesservice #reliability

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 reliable, hands-off managed Kubernetes service.

#kubernetes #azurekubernetesservice #reliability

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 Manager (ARM). For those consuming it on video, you can also see live demos of portal and CLI workflows, adoption and deletion policies, and discover how these capabilities simplify cluster management for platform admins and developers. Available in AKS Standard and Automatic, with future enhancements planned for network policies and fleet integration#kubernetes #azurekubernetesservice #managednamespace

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 control plane for improved scalability and maintenance.

Stay tuned for more updates, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and check out our podcast and TikTok for more AKS content!

• AKS Blog: https://aka.ms/aks/blog
• AKS TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@azurekubernetes
• AKS Community Calls: https://aka.ms/aks/communitycalls

#AKS #Kubernetes #Azure #Cloud #Scalability #ControlPlane #TechTalk #podcast

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 AI workloads and seamless upgrades.

Stay tuned for more updates, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and check out our podcast and TikTok for more AKS content!

AKS Blog: https://aka.ms/aks/blog

AKS TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@azurekubernetes

AKS Community Calls: https://aka.ms/aks/communitycalls

#AKS #Kubernetes #Azure #Cloud #Scalability #ControlPlane #TechTalk #podcast

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 more updates, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and check out our podcast and TikTok for more AKS content!AKS Blog: https://aka.ms/aks/blogAKS TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@azurekubernetesAKS Community Calls: https://aka.ms/aks/communitycalls#AKS #Kubernetes #Azure #Cloud #Scalability #ControlPlane #TechTalk #podcast

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, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and check out our podcast and TikTok for more AKS content!AKS Blog: https://aka.ms/aks/blogAKS TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@azurekubernetesAKS Community Calls: https://aka.ms/aks/communitycalls#AKS #Kubernetes #Azure #Cloud #Scalability #ControlPlane #TechTalk #podcast