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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

By : Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz
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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

By: Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz

Overview of this book

Microsoft is now one of the most significant contributors to Kubernetes open source projects. Kubernetes helps to create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. This book will be your guide to performing successful container orchestration and deployment of Kubernetes clusters on Azure. You will get started by learning how to deploy and manage highly scalable applications, along with understanding how to set up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on Azure. As you advance, you will learn how to reduce the complexity and operational overheads of managing a Kubernetes cluster on Azure. By the end of this book, you will not only be capable of deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on Azure with ease, but also have the knowledge of best practices for working with advanced AKS concepts for complex systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: The Basics
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Section 2: Deploying on AKS
10
Section 3: Leveraging Advanced Azure PaaS Services in Combination with AKS

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to secure your AKS cluster with role-based security by leveraging Azure Active Directory as the authentication provider. We created a service role that lets you assign read-only or read/write access to Kubernetes resources, and we looked at some advanced features. First, we showed you how to create the AAD server application. Then we created the client application. After that, we showed you how to get the AAD tenant ID and deployed the cluster. Once we had the RBAC-enabled solution deployed, we tested the read-only feature by creating users in the Active Directory. We then created a read-only group and added the user to it. We finished the chapter by creating the read-only user role and binding the role to the AAD group of the user.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to authorize Kubernetes cluster applications to connect to other...