# Six Live Kubernetes Recommendations: AKS, Cilium, Rate Limiting, and More

DevFeed: [Six Live Kubernetes Recommendations: AKS, Cilium, Rate Limiting, and More](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/six-live-kubernetes-recommendations-aks-cilium-rate-limiting-and-more-19004.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/getting-started-aks-pulumi-csharp/>)

Author: Adam Gordon Bell

Published: 2026-06-15T12:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Pulumi](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/pulumi.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [C#](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/csharp.md>), [Cilium](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cilium.md>), [Docker Hub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-hub.md>), [Web app](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webapp.md>)

Tags: [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [aks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aks.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [c-sharp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-sharp.md>), [cilium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cilium.md>), [container-registry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-registry.md>), [dotnet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dotnet.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [tutorials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorials.md>), [web-app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-app.md>)

## AI overview

A writeup of a live workshop on building an AKS cluster, Azure Container Registry, and a random-cat web app in C# with Pulumi. It presents recommendations for working with Kubernetes on Azure, including choosing a language the team already uses, and describes how Docker Hub rate limiting affected the workshop.

## Source excerpt

On June 10th, Engin and I ran a live workshop building an AKS cluster, an Azure Container Registry, and a random-cat web app from scratch in C#. This is the writeup, including the parts we didn't get to live. Since this post was published, Pulumi has added first-class support for HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). You can now write Pulumi programs in HCL directly, alongside general-purpose languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, and C#. To see how it works, see Pulumi HCL. Live demos keep you honest. On June 10th my AKS workshop went a little sideways. Partway through, Docker Hub rate-limited my image pull and we had to adapt the content on the fly. The original plan was to stand up an AKS cluster with Cilium, an Azure Container Registry with the cluster's pull permission wired in code, and a random-cat web app, then split the infrastructure from the workload into separate Pulumi stacks. Live, we didn't make it through all of that, but we had some fun tangents and it turned out to be a great session. So here are my six recommendations for working with Kubernetes on Azure from this recent workshop. 1. Pick the language your team already uses I opened the session by asking the room what language they prefer to work in, with one caveat from me: "Hopefully, it's not PowerShell because this is not in PowerShell." We got some C# answers and zero requests for PowerShell, which works out, because the whole workshop is in PowerShell C#. I chose C# because, first, I genuinely love the language. I spent the early part of my career as a C# developer, and on Azure it just makes sense. Second, an Azure workshop tends to draw a big turnout of C# devs, and if they aren't C# devs themselves, they often work somewhere the backend team uses C#. Pulumi lets you bring that language to your infrastructure rather than learn a new DSL. AI coding assistants also came up. LLMs have substantially more C# and Go in their training data than HCL or Bicep. As I put it live: "If you're working