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

Setting up the prerequisites

In this section, you will set up the prerequisites needed to build and run functions on your Kubernetes cluster. You need to set up an Azure container registry (ACR) and a virtual machine (VM) in Azure that will be used to develop the functions. The ACR will be used to store custom container images that contain the functions you will develop. You will also use a VM to build the functions and create Docker images, since you cannot do this from Azure Cloud Shell.

Container images and a container registry were introduced in Chapter 1, Introduction to containers and Kubernetes, in the section on Container images. A container image contains all the software required to start an actual running container. In this chapter, you will build custom container images that contain your functions. You need a place to store these images so that Kubernetes can pull them and run the containers at scale. You will use ACR for this. ACR is a private container registry that...