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DevOps Technical Lead - Dad - Runner - Ex Racing Driver - 3x British Karting Champ - Living the dream in New Zealand. #Azure #AWS #ITPro opinions are my own

Auckland, New Zealand
Joined March 2009
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@andyr8939
Andy Roberts
5 years
So today I release my 1st ever blog! I want to start giving back more to the #cloud #Azure community that has given me so much. I hope people find them useful! Starting with #LogicApps and Application Gateway Reports. Feedback Welcome! 👍 https://t.co/Wn0xMRLYPb
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andyroberts.nz
Web Frontend’s are probably one of the most used workloads in Cloud today. Your ingress is basically your income for many companies, and technologies used such as Apache, NGINX, IIS mixed with your...
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@brankopetric00
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Developer kept complaining our RDS instance was too slow. Wanted to upgrade from db.t3.large to db.r5.8xlarge. Cost increase: $140/month to $3,400/month. I checked query performance first: - Query ran 47,000 times per hour - No indexes on the WHERE clause columns - Missing
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@TheNJDevOpsGuy
Michael Levan👨🏻‍💻☕️
4 months
All engineers and organizations are focused on getting k8s deployments right. But what about when things go wrong? 👇 Do you have metrics and overall observability set up for Pods? What about for clusters and Kubernetes Services? In this blog post, I show you how you can
cloudnativedeepdive.com
Explore a detailed review of service mesh observability and Kubernetes network observability at the Pod and Cluster level. Learn how modern observability tools improve traffic visibility, performance...
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@todaywasawesome
Dan Garfield
4 months
One of the most important blog posts for Argo users to read - Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting GitOps. I'll be tweeting more about these. Great work from @codepipes
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codefresh.io
Many teams adopt Argo CD quickly but later face slowdowns and developer frustration. Learn 30 common GitOps antipatterns to avoid and keep deployments efficient.
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@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
4 months
🚀 Just spotted the latest post from the AKS team: “Announcing the CLI Agent for AKS: Agentic AI‑powered operations and diagnostics at your fingertips” A game-changer for troubleshooting AKS clusters using the power of agentic AI. Built with HolmesGPT and AKS‑MCP, this CLI
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brian redmond
4 months
🚀 We're excited to share AKS-MCP Server, our new open source tool to supercharge AI-driven automation on AKS! Unlock smarter workflows with Claude, GitHub Copilot & more. Get started here: https://t.co/Na0JnPXBh4 #aks #azure #kubernetes #AI
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blog.aks.azure.com
Learn about AKS-MCP server, the latest open-source tooling to unlock intelligent automation by standardizing and streamlining the way AI agents interact with your AKS cluster.
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Andy Roberts
5 months
My favourite book and audiobook by far, listened to it multiple times, and this looks amazing!! BUT if you have not read the book, stop the trailer at 2mins in.....they put in a giant spoiler! Can't wait! Fist my Bump! #ProjectHailMary https://t.co/swF01CtZsN
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Andy Roberts
6 months
My 12yr old failed her English assignment today because her teacher pasted all 4 paragraphs into ChatGPT and it said it’s 40% likely ai. No asking her, no comeback, just fail. It wasn’t, we watched her do it, it’s her fave subject. Teachers getting a lesson in AI tomorrow!
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@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
8 months
📢 Public service announcement for AKS users Starting May 2025, Azure will enforce regional quotas on AKS clusters per subscription. What’s changing: Quota per region, per subscription Existing usage is safe (for now) Need to raise a support request to increase it If you’re
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@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
8 months
What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
opensource.microsoft.com
We are thrilled to join the community at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. Learn more.
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Andy Roberts
8 months
Getting FOMO for #KubeCon after being at Salt Lake City last year. Hopefully I can get to the Atlanta one…. Enjoy everyone that is going!
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@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
9 months
🟢 KubeBuddy v0.0.10 is now live on PowerShell Gallery ✅ 35 built-in checks across workloads, nodes, storage, RBAC, and more 🔐 34 AKS best practice checks 🛡️ Flags root pods, privileged containers, host networking, RBAC overexposure ⚙️ Namespace exclusion via config 💡 HTML
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brian redmond
9 months
KubeFleet is a cloud native multicluster solution designed to ease the deployment, management and scaling of applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Now a part of the CNCF! https://t.co/KR2Ay8yCKV
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thenewstack.io
Using advanced scheduling, resource optimization and policy-based management, KubeFleet is designed to make multicluster Kubernetes management easier.
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@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
9 months
🚀 KubeBuddy v0.0.6 is here! 🎉 Now includes AKS best practices checks for improved Kubernetes management. Download the latest version from the PowerShell Gallery! ⭐️ Love KubeBuddy? Give us a star on GitHub: https://t.co/m1Iq9M3Qgz #Kubernetes #AKS #PowerShell #KubeBuddy
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Andy Roberts
9 months
America was the one to FAFO today, not the other way around.
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Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
9 months
🚀 Meet KubeBuddy! 🤖 A PowerShell-based Kubernetes assistant, part of the KubeDeck suite of tools ( https://t.co/3brwg0HPMC). ✅ Detect orphaned resources ✅ Find misconfigured RBAC ✅ Spot failing pods, jobs & workloads ✅ Easy CLI navigation 🎯 Coming soon: Official release
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Andy Roberts
10 months
This is an incredibly impressive achievement for a single person to do as a hobby!! GP2 was everything for me when I was growing up, fully getting me into "sim racing". #GP2x86 #gp2 https://t.co/F1LImBNfXv
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Andy Roberts
10 months
Forced office day today to boost team “moral” - Ferry was 30 mins late. - Saw a guy take a dump on the path on walk to office - Office coffee machine not working - Ferry home cancelled “because” - 2.5 hour commute home. Moral is going a direction they don’t want 😂🤡
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Andy Roberts
10 months
This is such a great thread for anyone using Kubernetes.
@todaywasawesome
Dan Garfield
10 months
Kubernetes anti patterns that belong in the 🗑️ in 2025 🧵 (#10 will trigger many) 1) Secret injection in manifests. Come on, what are we doing here? We literally have external secrets, the problem is solved. Stop shoving this stuff into manifests.
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Andy Roberts
10 months
If you are using or even thinking about AKS then get along to this if you are going to KubeCon. It’s such a valuable day to meet like minded AKS users and the Product Team.
@Pixel_Robots
Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
10 months
📢 Azure Kubernetes Day is happening on 1st April at KubeCon London! Learn from experts, get hands-on with Kubernetes on Azure, and network with the community. 📅 Save the date! 🔗 https://t.co/H3Azzzu5dT #AzureKubernetesDay #KubeCon #Kubernetes #Azure
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Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)
10 months
KubeTidy isn’t the only one with a fresh new look—KubeSnapIt got an upgrade too! ⚡ Snap, store, and restore your Kubernetes data with ease, now with a sleek new logo. Check it out: https://t.co/BP9qr4S2iQ 📸 #KubeSnapIt #KubeTidy
kubesnapit.io
The docs page for KubeSnapIt!
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