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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure: Run your applications securely and at scale on the most widely adopted orchestration platform

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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes

The perfect storm – that is how the current state of the software development world can be described. The sources of this storm are as follows:

  • Open source software (OSS): This provides a foundational framework that makes almost any software possible.
  • Technology and architecture advancements: This enables the orchestration of loosely coupled systems that consist of micro applications leveraging microservices, micro frontends, and multiple databases.
  • Public clouds: For instance, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud – these provide scalable infrastructure for a company of any size.
  • Containerization and orchestration: For instance, Docker and Kubernetes – making DevOps culture possible.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) packages and manages the complexity of putting together all of the preceding sources for you. As an engineer, it...

Technical requirements

You will need a modern web browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, for this chapter.

The foundational technologies that enable AKS

The combination of OSS, public cloud, and containerization gives a developer a virtually unlimited number of compute power combined with the ability of rapidly composing applications that deliver more than the sum of the individual parts. The individual parts that make up an application generally do only one thing, and do it well (take, for instance, the Unix philosophy).

The developer is now able to architect applications that are deployed as microservices. When done right, microservices, such as SOA, enable quick feedback during development, testing, and deployment. Microservices are not a free lunch and has various problems, which are listed in the 2014 article—Microservices - Not A Free Lunch! (you can read this article at http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html). With the technologies...

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the concepts of Docker and Kubernetes. This provides the common context for the following chapters, where we will dive into how to deploy Dockerized applications in Microsoft AKS. You will see how the AKS PaaS offering from Microsoft streamlines deployment by taking on many of the management and operational tasks that you may have to do yourself if you manage and operate the Kubernetes infrastructure.

In the next chapter, we will introduce the Azure Portal and its components in the context of managing AKS.

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Key benefits

  • Deploy highly scalable applications with Kubernetes on Azure
  • Learn to scale your application infrastructure dynamically with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Increase the efficiency of container orchestration service on the cloud

Description

Microsoft is now one of the most significant contributors to Kubernetes open source projects. Kubernetes helps to create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. This book will be your guide to performing successful container orchestration and deployment of Kubernetes clusters on Azure. You will get started by learning how to deploy and manage highly scalable applications, along with understanding how to set up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on Azure. As you advance, you will learn how to reduce the complexity and operational overheads of managing a Kubernetes cluster on Azure. By the end of this book, you will not only be capable of deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on Azure with ease, but also have the knowledge of best practices for working with advanced AKS concepts for complex systems.

Who is this book for?

If you’re a cloud engineer, cloud solution provider, system administrator, site reliability engineer, or a developer interested in DevOps and are looking for an extensive guide to running Kubernetes in the Azure environment, then this book is for you. Although previous knowledge of Kubernetes is not expected, some experience with Linux and Docker containers would be beneficial.

What you will learn

  • Use the Kubernetes dashboard to review clusters and deployed applications
  • Find out the benefits and limitations, and how to avoid potential problems while using AKS
  • Understand the implementation of Microsoft toolchains such as Visual Studio Code and Git
  • Implement simple and advanced AKS solutions
  • Ensure automated scalability and high reliability of your applications with Microsoft AKS
  • Apply kubectl commands to monitor applications
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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Section 1: The Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Deploying on AKS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Application Deployment on AKS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scaling Your Application to Thousands of Deployments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Single Sign-On with Azure AD Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Monitoring the AKS Cluster and the Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Operation and Maintenance of AKS Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Leveraging Advanced Azure PaaS Services in Combination with AKS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Connecting an App to an Azure Database - Authorization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Connecting to Other Azure Services (Event Hub) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Securing AKS Network Connections Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Serverless Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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In the fast changing world of Kubernetes and especially AKS, this is a welcome book for step-by-step instructions on navigating the hard waters. Author's promise of keeping the steps updated on github is also reassuring to keep up with changes. If you are looking for in-depth tech fundamentals, I'm sure there will be tons of resources, but for a hands-on AKS know-how.....good book to get started.
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I purchased this book after reading some very detailed books on both Docker and Kubernetes. I specifically bought this to understand the AKS (Azure) specific aspects of K8S implementations. I found that the book's approach is more of a "follow these steps and it works" approach rather than explaining what you are actually being instructed to do. I would also say that the vast majority of examples do not work and required me to search for the proper example online. Problems with the examples ranged from using older libraries that are no longer supported or compatible, permission issues specific to AKS requiring prior remediation, misspellings of commands (e.g. kubctl instead of kubectl) and a number of other issues. There is also a chapter dedicated to OMS which is being deprecated at the time of this writing. In all honesty though, it was the only AKS specific book that I could find and I did get information out of it that pointed me in the right direction if you're willing to do the research yourself.
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