Summary

Having completed this chapter, you are able to access and navigate the Azure portal to perform all the functions required to deploy an AKS cluster. You used the free trial on Azure to your advantage to learn the ins and outs of AKS and other Azure services. You launched your own AKS cluster with the ability to customize configurations if required using the Azure portal.

You also used Azure Cloud Shell without installing anything on your computer. This is important for all the upcoming sections, where you will be doing more than launching simple applications. Finally, you launched a publicly accessible service. The skeleton of this application is the same as for the complex applications that you will be launching in later chapters.

In the next chapter, we will take an in-depth look at different deployment options to deploy applications onto AKS.