AKS Engine itself is a command-line tool that can generate an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template based on a supplied configuration file. To use AKS Engine, you need the following which have installation processes described in previous chapters:
- The Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell: Instructions are available in Chapter 2, Managing State in Containers, in the Using remote/cloud storage for container storage storage.
- kubectl: Instructions are available in Chapter 6, Interacting with Kubernetes Clusters, in the Installing Kubernetes command-line tooling section.
- SSH client for Windows: Instructions are available in Chapter 7, Deploying a Hybrid On-Premises Kubernetes Cluster, in the Creating a Kubernetes master node using kubeadm section.
With all the tools installed on your machine, you can proceed to installing AKS Engine itself. The recommended installation...