Exercise 5 – deploying an AKS cluster using Azure DevOps Starter

To deploy an AKS cluster using Azure DevOps Starter, we will open the Azure portal and search for DevOps Starter:

Figure 10.26 – Azure DevOps Starter

Select Create. The first step consists of defining whether we will start a new application or select existing application source code from GitHub or Azure DevOps.

If we start a new application, we must click here to change the settings. We can select GitHub or Azure DevOps. We can also select our language: .NET, Node.JS, PHP, Java, Static Website, Python, Ruby, or Go.

If we select .NET, we can click on Next: Framework. We have two options: ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core. We will select ASP.NET Core. After clicking on Next: Service to select an Azure service to deploy the application, we will select Kubernetes Service. After that, click on Next: Create:

Figure 10.27 – Selecting Kubernetes Service...