What are Microsoft Azure and AKS?
Before we start to look at installing the supporting tools, let's quickly discuss the origins of the services we'll be looking at, starting with Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Azure
In 2008, Microsoft announced a new service called Windows Azure, which it had been working on since 2004. This service was part of a project known internally as Project Red Dog. This project focused on delivering data center services using core Windows components. The five core components that Microsoft announced at their 2008 developer conference were as follows:
- Microsoft SQL Data Services: This was a cloud version of the Microsoft SQL Database service running as a Platform as a Service (PaaS), which aimed to remove the complexity of hosting your own SQL services.
- Microsoft .NET Services: Another PaaS service that allowed developers to deploy their .NET-based applications into a Microsoft-managed .NET runtime.
- Microsoft SharePoint: A Software...