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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

Summary

Having completed this chapter, you are able to access and navigate the Azure portal to perform all the functions required to deploy an AKS cluster. You used the free trial on Azure to your advantage to learn the ins and outs of AKS and other Azure services. You launched your own AKS cluster with the ability to customize configurations if required using the Azure portal.

You also used Azure Cloud Shell without installing anything on your computer. This is important for all the upcoming sections, where you will be doing more than launching simple applications. Finally, you launched a publicly accessible service. The skeleton of this application is the same as for the complex applications that you will be launching in later chapters.

In the next chapter, we will take an in-depth look at different deployment options to deploy applications onto AKS.