Setting up a managed Kubernetes Cluster on Azure
In this section, we will learn how to set up a managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure. The reason it’s called managed is because the master node, which is sort of the brain of Kubernetes, is managed by Azure, and we only need to spin up the worker nodes. We will see how to log in to Azure and create a subscription key, and we will install Azure CLI and collect the various credentials that we need for our DevOps pipeline.
For this chapter, we will use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to set up our cloud-based managed Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up a managed Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or you can use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS.
Irrespective of whichever hosting provider you use to set up your Kubernetes cluster, the Dockerfile and the Kubernetes configuration .yaml files remain the same.
