Azure Kubernetes Service – The Next Steps

We ended the previous chapter by stating that we can do things more efficiently on Azure Kubernetes Service and that is true! Even though we have stressed the complexity of Kubernetes throughout this book, that complexity also gives us a lot of freedom.

Many companies and open source initiatives have invested time and money into building solutions, add-ons, and services on top of Kubernetes. A lot of them have even been adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://cncf.io), indicating that they are not only promising but also actively maintained.

But it’s not only third-party solutions that add value to Kubernetes. In fact, if you look at the Microsoft offering, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), they have added a lot of plugins to integrate and interact with other Azure technologies, making life even easier. And that is the investment Microsoft has made over the past couple of years: making the managing and maintaining...