Azure Kubernetes Services
Kubernetes is designed as a management and orchestration service to assist with managing containers and creating a mechanism for scale. AKS is a serverless implementation of the Kubernetes service and minimizes the management of the Kubernetes cluster for you. The service is designed so that you only take care of the agent nodes. Azure builds upon Kubernetes by enhancing some of its default implementations to enable functions, such as the following:
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Identity is integrated into Microsoft Entra ID, making the sign-on experience more seamless and easier to integrate. Management through Entra ID roles can also be done either with user accounts or the system identity.
- Integrated logging and monitoring: You can monitor your containers through native Azure tools through the Azure Monitor service and view data relating to the health and performance of your containers.
- Clusters and nodes: AKS creates new abilities...