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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

Scaling your application

There are two scale dimensions for applications running on top of AKS. The first scale dimension is the number of Pods a deployment has, while the second scale dimension in AKS is the number of nodes in the cluster.

By adding additional Pods to a deployment, also known as scaling out, you add additional compute power to the deployed application. You can either scale out your applications manually or have Kubernetes take care of this automatically via the HPA. The HPA will watch metrics such as CPU to determine whether Pods need to be added to your deployment.

The second scale dimension in AKS is the number of nodes in the cluster. The number of nodes in a cluster defines how much CPU and memory are available for all the applications running on that cluster. You can scale your cluster either manually by changing the number of nodes, or you can use the cluster autoscaler to automatically scale out your cluster. The cluster autoscaler will watch the cluster...

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