A technical guide on how to bootstrap Flux onto an existing Azure AKS cluster using Terraform. This step-by-step article covers the full installation process, from checking your requirements, set-up deploy keys and using our Flux configuration to bootstrap the cluster with Terraform. We also delve into some examples of using Flux to deploy your resources.

If you are running large-scale cloud infrastructure platforms you should manage them with code throughout their entire life cycle and make sure that these IaC code libraries are integrated into mature DevSecOps processes and CICD pipelines. Some key business benefits of managing with code are platform stability and risk management improvements, speed to market with new services and cost reduction and optimisation.

DevSecOps should be designed and implement from the start – Why?

A technical blog that discusses moving the deployment of Azure Red Hat OpenShift from imperative to declarative code.

We are happy to announce that our key services and solutions are now listed and made available for purchase on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, making our solutions more transparent and accessible for our current and future customers and partners.

Kubernetes is a complex beast and any best practice or security guide you read will hit you with dozens of best-practice rules your clusters should adhere to in order to make them manageable and secure. In most situations the reality is that the rules are only worth their salt if they are at least audited and, ideally, enforced. Kubernetes policy allows you to define your policy as code, then audit and enforce the rules as you see fit.

We are thrilled to announce that BlakYaks has achieved the Gold Cloud Platform and Gold Data Analytics partner competency as well as multiple silver competencies. BlakYaks have been Microsoft Partners since our launch in March 2021, and after only seven months building Azure cloud services for our customers, BlakYaks has achieved Gold Partner Status, the highest standard of Cloud Platform Competency awarded by Microsoft.

We are a specialist Azure and cloud-native consultancy & engineering business based in the UK (London), delivering technology services and solutions to larger businesses. As a business, we set out with clarity regarding the technology partnerships and some cloud-native tools that are strategically important to us, and ultimately to many of our customers. Selecting a set of strategic technologies and tools is important because it drives some strategic imperatives for our business.

This blog shares key considerations for organisations (particularly technology infrastructure teams) as they navigate the transition to cloud-native enabling technologies. There is pent-up demand across the industry from application development teams wanting their infrastructure technology colleagues to provide tech tools and services that enable them to build micro-service architectures. These architectures depend on and are enabled by containers, platform-as-a-service and serverless technologies.

Designing and building Azure scaffolds, landing zones and adopting best practice from the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and extending the platform with enterprise containers requires a number of integrations to be considered to ensure the full eco-system is working as planned.