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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure Automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209671
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nills Franssens Nills Franssens
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Gunther Lenz Gunther Lenz
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Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface Section 1: The Basics
1. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 2. Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) Section 2: Deploying on AKS
3. Application deployment on AKS 4. Building scalable applications 5. Handling common failures in AKS 6. Securing your application with HTTPS and Azure AD 7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application Section 3: Leveraging advanced Azure PaaS services
8. Connecting an app to an Azure database 9. Connecting to Azure Event Hubs 10. Securing your AKS cluster 11. Serverless functions Index

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes creating and managing Kubernetes clusters easier.

A typical Kubernetes cluster consists of a number of master nodes and a number of worker nodes. A node within Kubernetes is equivalent to a virtual machine (VM). The master nodes contain the Kubernetes API and a database that contains the cluster state. The worker nodes are the VMs that run your actual workload.

AKS makes it a lot easier to create a cluster. When you create an AKS cluster, AKS sets up the Kubernetes master for you, free of charge. AKS will then create VMs in your subscription, and turn those VMs into worker nodes of your Kubernetes cluster in your network. You only pay for those VMs; you don't pay for the master.

Within AKS, Kubernetes Services are integrated with Azure Load Balancer and Kubernetes Ingresses are integrated with the application gateway. Azure Load Balancer is a layer-4 network load balancer Service; the application gateway is...

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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure - Second Edition
Published in: May 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800209671
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