Ana Cozma

Something that I love is to be able to troubleshoot fast (or at least have the right tooling for it). Working in a Kubernetes environment, I often find myself needing to get pods environment variables and secrets either for debugging purposes or auditing. I wanted something that would give me everything I need fast and at a glance in my terminal. In this blog post I’ll share the little script I created to achieve this and how to add it to your shell as a function.

If you are working in an Azure environment and you are using Azure Availability Tests you might run into the following Health Advisory event: On 31 October 2024, in alignment with the Azure wide legacy TLS deprecation, TLS 1.0/1.1 protocol versions and the below listed TLS 1.2/1.3 legacy Cipher suites and > Elliptical curves will be retired for Application Insights availability tests. For a list of deprecated versions and remaining supported versions have a look over the official documentation here.

Recently a new vulnerability in OpenSSH has been identified and the first question that popped into my mind was: How do I make sure my nodes are not affected by _this vulnerability? In this blog post, I wanted to go over what the vulnerability is, how it can be exploited, explain how you can check if your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is vulnerable to CVE-2024-6387 and what you can do about it, including different options for upgrading the VMSS image and how to choose between them.