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Published inMar 2023
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Wesley Haakman
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Wesley Haakman

Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family.
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Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies – you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.
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In this chapter, we have learned that we can build upon an existing AKS cluster and add features without having to redeploy the environment. We have also learned that enterprise customers require more from you – not because they are annoying, but because the bigger the customer, the bigger the impact once things go south. We want to mitigate those risks but also provide a platform that is operable by our Ops teams.

With the Azure Monitoring plugin for Container insights, we have also seen that it is quite easy and effortless to configure monitoring for your containers. It is a no-brainer to configure but often left out.

Everything in this chapter is focused on two things:

  • Providing the features and configuration your customers require
  • Lowering the overhead and maintenance for your Ops teams

We have been focusing on the first bullet. But if you were to replace the use case and focus on lowering effort and management from your Ops team, almost...

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Wesley Haakman

Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family.
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Richard Hooper

Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies – you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.
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