Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides a hosted Kubernetes service where Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance for you. AKS reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure. When you create AKS, Azure provides the Kubernetes control plane. You need manage only the agent nodes within your clusters.

There are several ways to deploy to Azure, including using the portal, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and Terraform.

In this walkthrough, you will create an AKS cluster using an ARM template and then use Azure CLI to deploy a simple application to the cluster. You will review the design decisions made for the walkthrough, see how the template supports Kubenet for Kubernetes networking, role-based-access-control (RBAC) and how it supports managed identities to communicate with other Azure resources. Finally, you will use a Kubernetes manifest file to define the desired state of the cluster, and test the application.

Continue reading “Walkthrough: Create Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using ARM template”