Category archive for: AKS

Kafka & Kubernetes

Published by Agraj Mangal on March 31, 2020

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure you know about Kubernetes – one of the vastly successful open source project for container orchestration. And for those of us, who work with any sort of Data Platform, in all likelihood, must have come across the ubiquitous Data Streaming platform – Kafka. I’ve written a couple of posts around how…

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Azure Kubernetes Service & Key Vault

Published by Agraj Mangal on November 13, 2019

Kubernetes offers a way to create and manage sensitive information for your applications using an Object called Secret, however the information stored in a Secret is simply Base64 encoded, which is arguably as good as keeping them in plaintext. Hence for every production workload you would find solutions such as Hashicorp’s Vault or Azure Key Vault managing the secrets (keys,…

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