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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

Getting started with the Azure portal

We will start our initial cluster deployment using the Azure portal. The Azure portal is a web-based management console. It allows you to build, manage, and monitor all your Azure deployments worldwide through a single console.

Note

To follow along with the examples in this book, you need an Azure account. If you do not have an Azure account, you can create a free account by following the steps at azure.microsoft.com/free. If you plan to run this in an existing subscription, you will need owner rights to the subscription and the ability to create service principals in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

All the examples in this book have been verified with a free trial account.

We are going to jump straight in by creating our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. By doing so, we are also going to familiarize ourselves with the Azure portal.

Creating your first AKS cluster

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