/A tech blog focusing on DevOps, Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes and Software Architecture. 2026-06-04T02:50:59+02:00 Wolfgang Ofner / Jekyll © 2026 Wolfgang Ofner /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 2026-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 /video-make-kubectl-readable-the-two-minute-terminal-upgrade/ Wolfgang Ofner

2026-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 2026-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 /make-kubectl-readable-the-two-minute-terminal-upgrade/ Wolfgang Ofner

Staring at a massive, monochrome wall of text during a kubectl describe or tracking down a failing pod status in a giant namespace is a daily frustration for anyone working with Kubernetes. When everything is the exact same shade of dull white, it is incredibly easy to miss a failing pod status, a misconfigured image tag, or a critical error event. Your eyes shouldn’t have to scan raw text lik...

2026-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 /video-karpenter-for-azure-hands-on-with-aks-node-auto-provisioning/ Wolfgang Ofner

2026-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 /karpenter-for-azure-hands-on-with-aks-node-auto-provisioning/ Wolfgang Ofner

Traditional cluster autoscaling in Kubernetes has always felt a bit reactionary. For years, platform engineers have lived in a world dictated by rigid, predefined node pools. You deploy an application, wait for a pod to fail to schedule due to insufficient resources, and then watch the Cluster Autoscaler sluggishly trigger a virtual machine scale set expansion. Minutes later, generic compute ar...

2026-05-11T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-11T00:00:00+02:00 /speaking-about-automating-tls-certifcates-with-cert-manager-at-the-azure-cloud-commander-meetup/ Wolfgang Ofner

Manual certificate management is an operational liability waiting to happen. Tracking expiration dates, manually rotating keys, and managing long-lived secrets across numerous DNS zones is a recipe for a sudden, unexpected production outage. Join me on June 1st, 2026 at 3 PM ET for a deep dive into building a completely hands-off, zero-trust certificate infrastructure. Register and Join the S...