Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Made Easy

About Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Made Easy

In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, containerization and orchestration are becoming increasingly important.

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard

for container orchestration and management, providing organizations with the flexibility and scalability needed to manage modern applications. Microsoft

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service

that eliminates the complexity of managing and scaling your Kubernetes infrastructure, enabling you to focus on building and deploying your applications. AKS

offers benefits

such as seamless

integration with other Azure services, rapid deployment and scaling, automatic upgrades, built-in security and compliance

, and much more. This course is meant to

make AKS easy to learn, understand

, and to provide students with

a comprehensive and practical experience with AKS

. The course start with

an introduction about containers and Kubernetes

, then we will cover topics such as

creating and managing Kubernetes clusters

,

understand the components at Kubernetes and Azure level

, configuring

networking

with respect to

network plugins, Kubernetes services, SNAT, outbound types

and t

ypes of AKS clusters in relation to control plane access

, like public or private AKS clusters and the ones with VNET integration.

Security

will be the next topics and we will start with a section about

AKS-managed Active Directory integration

, then we will look gain knowledge of

identities, certificates, network policies, how to use secrets from the Azure Key Vault, about Azure policy, Microsoft Defender, AppArmor, and SecComp.

Scaling

is important, so we will discover

resource reservations, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler, Cluster Autoscaler (CAS), Virtual Nodes add-on, and KEDA.

The next section will be

Storage

, and you will learn how to use

Azure Disk

, including snapshot, resize,

Azure File

, and

Azure Blob

in AKS. Then, we will discover the

monitoring and troubleshooting

chapter, where we will learn

default available features

as well as enabling

Container Insights or managed Prometheus and Grafana

. Subsequent to this, we will learn about

upgrades and related features like auto-upgrade or planned maintenance

, then how to

integrate our AKS cluster with the Azure Container Registry

. After this, we will focus on

ingress controllers, like application gateway ingress controllers (AGIC) and nginx ingress controllers

, and how to expose an application via

HTTPS

or how to use

Let's Encrypt and Cert Manager

. Finally, we will focus on

high availability

, and you will learn about

available tiers, availability zones, and how to obtain reliability while routing traffic between multiple AKS clusters

. By the end of this course,

you will be equipped

with the

skills and knowledge to effectively deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in AKS, and to leverage the benefits of AKS in the industry, including faster application development, improved scalability, and increased flexibility.