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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

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

At this point in the book, we have covered the basics of Docker and Kubernetes and setup a Kubernetes cluster on Azure. In this section, we will cover how to deploy applications on top of that Kubernetes cluster.

Throughout this section, we will progressively build and deploy different applications on top of AKS. We will start by deploying a simple application, and later introduce concepts such as scaling, monitoring, and authentication. By the end of the section, you should feel comfortable in deploying applications to AKS.

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Application deployment on AKS
  • Chapter 4, Building scalable applications
  • Chapter 5, Handling common failures in AKS
  • Chapter 6, Securing your application with HTTPS and Azure AD
  • Chapter 7, Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application