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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Deploying an AKS cluster

AKS can be provisioned using the Azure portal, the Azure CLI (command-line interface), Azure PowerShell cmdlets, ARM templates, SDKs (software development kits) for supported languages, and even Azure ARM REST APIs.

The Azure portal is the simplest way of creating an AKS instance; however, to enable DevOps, it is better to create an AKS instance using ARM templates, the CLI, or PowerShell.

Creating an AKS cluster

Let's create a resource group to deploy our AKS cluster. From the Azure CLI, use the az group create command:

az group create -n AzureForArchitects -l southeastasia

Here, -n denotes the name of the resource group and -l denotes the location. If the request was successful, you will see a similar response to this:

The output of the az group create command showing that the resource group has been created.
Figure 14.9: Resource group creation

Now that we have the resource group ready, we will go ahead and create the AKS cluster using the az aks create command. The...