19 June 2026
Six ways to troubleshoot pod-to-pod connectivity in Kubernetes when the usual tools are missing: curl, nc, wget, a bash /dev/tcp port check, a raw HTTP request via bash redirection, and a PowerShell/.NET fallback for Windows containers.
Tagged “cloud-engineering”
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AKS's default max-pods-per-node (30 for user node pools) is set at node-pool creation time and can't be changed later — why bumping it to 150 up front makes sense on a subnet with plenty of IP headroom.
4 June 2026
Renewing AZ-204 in about 30 minutes on memory alone, right after passing AZ-400 — next up, full focus on AZ-305's architecture and governance content.
19 April 2026
The sentiment API goes live via a real two-pipeline, cross-subscription Azure DevOps setup: Terraform cluster creation feeding a second deploy pipeline through cross-pipeline artifact passing, arm64/amd64 cost-split nodepools, end-to-end deploy in 2 minutes.
21 December 2025
Realizing that everyday exam-prep habits already were prompt engineering: a four-step Azure exam strategy built around priming, format/quantity constraints, and length limits to get sharper, more useful answers out of AI chat tools.
16 December 2025
A quick AI-102 hands-on lab moment: running Azure AI Language's sentiment analysis on a 'Happy birthday!!' message and getting exactly the positive score you'd hope for.