You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Summary

This chapter introduced Azure Service Operator (ASO). ASO is an open-source project that makes it possible to create Azure services using Kubernetes. This allows you as the user to not have to switch between the Azure portal or CLI and Kubernetes resource definitions.

In this chapter, you created a new AKS cluster and then installed ASO on this cluster. You then created a MySQL database on Azure using ASO. You verified that this database was available in Azure using the Azure portal.

Finally, you created a WordPress application on your Kubernetes cluster that connected to the external database. You verified that the application was running and available as you've seen in previous chapters.

In the next chapter, you will learn about other Azure integrations with AKS, namely Azure Security Center and Azure Defender for Kubernetes, which are used to monitor the security configuration of your cluster and mitigate threats.