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Learning Friday: Getting started with AKS

Documentation

• Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service - Azure Kubernetes Service
• Concepts - Kubernetes basics for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Well-Architected Framework review for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Everything you want to know about ephemeral OS disks and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Introducing the Azure Linux container host for AKS
• Best practices for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service

Deploying the resources

Connect to Azure and set the context.

Connect-AzAccount
Set-AzContext <subscriptionId>

Create the storage account for the Terraform state.

./scripts/Create-StorageAccount.ps1

Modify the Terraform backend configuration to use the storage account.

Deploy the resources.

cd terraform
terraform apply

Connect to the cluster.

Deploy the Azure Voting App.

cd ../kubernetes/terraform
kubectl apply -f azure-vote-all-in-one-redis.yaml

Explore the deployed Kubernetes resources and the application.

Destroy the resources when finished to minimize the expenses.

cd ../terraform
terraform destroy