How to work with your Azure container service cluster

Now we have created a new ACS cluster. But we also want to work with it. I will now introduce the basic approach.

As important prerequisite, to work with the cluster, you need the Master FQDN (a URL). The Master FQDN can be found in the Essentials section of the dashboard of your container service.

Now that we know the important prerequisites, we can go further.

Each of the three available orchestrators provide you with a work surface. To work with these UIs, you must first create an SSH tunnel.

You don't know how to create an SSH tunnel?

Then I want to bring you closer to the procedure by the way of an example. I assume that you have followed my earlier advice and have installed the PuTTY toolset. I also assume that your SSH key pair is available.

Everything okay? Then let's start:

1. Search for the PuTTY tool and then open the tool:

2. On the first page, fill in the Host Name field. The hostname is composed of the admin username (from your cluster...