Introduction
In this article, You will understand the Azure Kubernetes service. You will create an AKS and deploy a container on it.
What is Kubernetes?
- Container-based applications and their associated networking and storage components are managed by the Kubernetes platform.
- The underlying infrastructure components are not the focus of Kubernetes.
- There is a robust set of APIs for management operations.
- You can build and run modern, portable, microservices-based applications using Kubernetes.
- As teams progress through the adoption of microservices-based applications, Kubernetes supports both stateless and stateful applications.
You can build applications with your preferred programming language, OS, libraries, or messaging bus on the open platform. CI/CD tools can be used to schedule and deploy releases.
Kubernetes cluster architecture
A cluster is made up of two parts.
- The control plane provides the core services.
- Run your application workload with the help of the Nodes.
Control plane
A control plane is created when you create an AKS cluster. The control plane is free of charge and can be accessed by the user. You only pay for the AKS cluster. The control plane and resources are located in the region where you created them.
The control plane has core components. They are
- kube-apiserver
- etcd
- kube-scheduler
- kube-controller-manager
Nodes
To run your applications and support services, you need a container. An AKS cluster has at least one virtual machine that runs the Kubernetes components and container runtime.
The Kubernetes node components re
- kubelet
- kube-proxy
- container runtime
What is AKS?
The AKS simplifies the deployment of a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Critical tasks, like health monitoring and maintenance, are handled by Azure. You only manage and maintain the agent nodes if you manage the masters.
AKS provides a managed service that reduces the complexity of deployment and core management tasks. You only pay for the AKS nodes that run your applications if you use the Azure platform.
Demo
Kindly watch the below video to understand the Azure Kubernetes service.
Conclusion
You created an Azure Kubernetes service. Deployed a container on Azure Kubernetes Service and created a service for the container.
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