I assume we all acknowledge the importance of following your cloud spend. And although Azure Portal’s Cost Management and Billing is a great tool for monitoring, allocating and optimizing Azure costs, sometimes there are needs to export the underlying data to be used in another external tool.

Sometimes I need access to a proxy server, and in most cases the proxy should be located in a certain country or region. This is where all public cloud providers come in handy.

There are times when I need to use or test something in Azure using a private and secure connection from my home office. This is where VPN connections come into the picture.

I know this blog post is long overdue. No excuses. Been to busy lazy. Thanks for being here, let’s start with 101 on AKS defaults, nodes, pods and stuff.

I’m going to write some blog posts about my Kubernetes adventures, and the first thing I wanted to do, was to set up some scripts to build up a simple Kubernetes environment to play with.