You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

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

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Using AKS Diagnostics

When you are experiencing issues in AKS, a good place to start your exploration is the AKS Diagnostics pane. It provides you with tools that help investigate any issues related to underlying infrastructure or system cluster components.

Note:

AKS Diagnostics is in preview at the time of writing this book. This means functionality might be added or removed.

To access AKS Diagnostics, hit the Diagnose and solve problems option in the AKS menu. This will open up Diagnostics, as shown in Figure 7.31:

An overview of the AKS Diagnostics pane in the Azure portal

Figure 7.31: Accessing AKS Diagnostics

AKS Diagnostics gives you two tools to diagnose and explore issues. One is Cluster Insights, and the other is Networking. Cluster Insights uses cluster logs and configuration on your cluster to perform a health check and compare your cluster against best practices. It contains useful information and relevant health indicators in case anything is misconfigured in your cluster. An example output...