Learnings and future decisions

AKS has grown in the past years. Where a lot of features we have been using throughout this book would traditionally require a complete redeployment of the cluster, these days, they do not. That makes Azure Kubernetes a reliable platform for an enterprise (customer) to run their containerized solutions on. Not that Kubernetes is not reliable by default, but it is very hard to explain to your customers that there is going to be downtime because you want to add a feature to your platform.

Enterprises care about governance and security and, as we stated in the introduction, if you’re starting small, you might have not thought about all of it. And if there is anything to be learned from this chapter, maintaining the quality of your AKS platform is a continuous process. All the things we have configured in the past two chapters merely scratch the surface of what you can actually do and what is to come. As long as you are willing to add or discard...