Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Microsoft has long been a supporter of running container workloads in Microsoft Azure. Originally, Microsoft started by offering the Azure Container Service, which supported three different container orchestrators: Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS, and Docker Swarm.

However, in October 2017, Microsoft announced that they would be replacing Azure Container Service with the newly developed Azure Kubernetes Service—this, as you may already have guessed, dropped support for Mesosphere DC/OS and Docker Swarm.

Since then, the service, which is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes hosting platform, has come on leaps and bounds, with a recent development being the general availability of Windows container support.

Rather than go into any more detail on this subject, let's get on and launch an AKS cluster. We will be covering two ways of doing this: using the Azure web portal and setting it up from your local machine using the Azure command...