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Persistent Storage in AKS using Azure Disks: Deploying MySQL with a WebApp via LoadBalancer

Ritesh Kumar Nayak

This article shows how to use Azure Disks to provide persistent storage in an AKS cluster by deploying a MySQL database and a web application exposed through a LoadBalancer.

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    kubectl-rexec is a kubectl plugin that provides full audit logging for kubectl exec sessions, addressing the security gap where standard exec commands leave no trace of what happens inside containers.

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    Korrel8r is a rule-based correlation engine that automatically discovers and graphs relationships between Kubernetes cluster resources and observability signals across Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager, and the Kubernetes API.

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    Kubechecks allows users of GitHub and GitLab to see exactly what their changes will affect on their current Argocd deployments and automatically run various conformance test suites prior to merging.

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    H8s is a home infrastructure project combining Kubernetes with Talos OS security, running on 2 N100 mini PCs with GitOps deployment via ArgoCD.

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    Kubernetes History Inspector (KHI) turns raw Kubernetes logs into a visual, filterable timeline.

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Patroni Backups: when pgBackRest and Argo CD have your back (literally)
Patroni Backups: when pgBackRest and Argo CD have your back (literally)

Your database backup strategy shouldn't be the thing that takes your production systems down.

Ziv Yatzik manages 600+ Postgres clusters in a closed network environment with no public cloud. After existing backup solutions proved unreliable — causing downtime when disks filled up — his team built a new architecture using pgBackRest, Argo CD, and Kubernetes CronJobs.

In this episode:

  • Why storing WAL files on shared NAS storage prevents backup failures from cascading into database outages
  • How GitOps with Argo CD lets them manage backups for hundreds of clusters by adding a single YAML file
  • The Ansible + Kubernetes hybrid approach that keeps VM-based Patroni clusters in sync with Kubernetes-orchestrated backups

A practical blueprint for making database backups boring, reliable, and safe.

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