You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

Virtual kubelet

Virtual kubelet is currently in preview and is managed by the CNCF organization. It is quite an innovative approach that AKS uses for scalability purposes. Virtual kubelet is deployed on the Kubernetes cluster as a Pod. The container running within the Pod uses the Kubernetes SDK to create a new node resource and represents itself to the entire cluster as a node. The cluster components, including the API server, scheduler, and controllers, think of it and treat it as a node and schedule Pods on it.

However, when a Pod is scheduled on this node that is masquerading as a node, it communicates to its backend components, known as providers, to create, delete, and update the Pods. One of the main providers on Azure is Azure Container Instances. Azure Batch can also be used as a provider. This means the containers are actually created on Container Instances or Azure Batch rather than on the cluster itself; however, they are managed by the cluster. The architecture of virtual...