Chapter 10: Working with Azure Kubernetes Service
In the previous chapter, we explored the world of container virtualization, and in particular Docker containers. This chapter is all about managing containerized workloads using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
This chapter is different from all the other chapters in this book. Until now, every chapter has been about infrastructure and providing a platform: the classic system administrator working in the cloud. Even Chapter 9, Container Virtualization in Azure, contained questions such as ''How do we install Docker?'' and ''How do we get the container up and running?'' The questions we'll answer in this chapter are the following:
- How do we deploy and manage our workload during the development phase and afterward?
- How can we scale up/down?
- What are the availability options?
Kubernetes provides an important answer to all of these questions. It is a solution that...