Infrastructure deployment

To deploy the infrastructure that will be running our Kubernetes cluster, we will be using Microsoft Azure. You can follow along by creating a free trial or using any other public cloud provider, or your own on-premise IT infrastructure. The steps will differ depending on what you choose, though.

Installing Azure CLI

There are two ways of deploying resources in Azure when you are using Linux: you can do it either from the portal or via the Azure CLI. We will be using both, but for different scenarios.

Let’s begin installing Azure CLI on our Linux workstation or on the Windows subsystem for Linux.

Note that all commands are assumed to be issued by an account with root privileges or the root...