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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure - Second Edition

By : Nills Franssens, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz
Book Image

Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure - Second Edition

By: Nills Franssens, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz

Overview of this book

From managing versioning efficiently to improving security and portability, technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker have greatly helped cloud deployments and application development. Starting with an introduction to Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), this book will guide you through deploying an AKS cluster in different ways. You’ll then explore the Azure portal by deploying a sample guestbook application on AKS and installing complex Kubernetes apps using Helm. With the help of real-world examples, you'll also get to grips with scaling your application and cluster. As you advance, you'll understand how to overcome common challenges in AKS and secure your application with HTTPS and Azure AD (Active Directory). Finally, you’ll explore serverless functions such as HTTP triggered Azure functions and queue triggered functions. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be well-versed with the fundamentals of Azure Kubernetes Service and be able to deploy containerized workloads on Microsoft Azure with minimal management overhead.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Deploying on AKS
10
Section 3: Leveraging advanced Azure PaaS services
15
Index

Creating a queue-triggered function

In the previous section, we created a sample HTTP function. In a real-world use case, queues are often used to pass messages between different components of an application. A function can be triggered based on messages in a queue to then perform additional processing on these messages.

In this section, we'll create a function that is integrated with storage queues to consume events. We will also configure KEDA to allow scaling to/from 0 Pods in case of low traffic.

We still start by creating a queue in Azure.

Creating a queue

In this section, we will create a new storage account and a new queue in that storage account. We will connect functions to that queue in the next section.

  1. To begin, we will create a storage account. Look for storage in the Azure search bar and select Storage accounts:
    Searching for storage accounts by entering "storage" in the Azure search bar.
    Figure 11.12: Looking for storage in the Azure search bar
  2. Click the Add button on the top to create a new account. Provide the details...