What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) ?
AKS is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you quickly deploy and manage clusters. We will see how to create AKS cluster in Azure cloud using Azure CLI.
Pre-requistes:
Azure CLI is installed on your local machine.
Account setup in Azure cloud.
Create Resource Group
Step 1 Make sure you are login to Azure portal first. az login enter your Microsoft credentials.
Step 2 - create a resource group first. az group create --name myResourceGroup --location centralus
Step 3 Create AKS cluster with 2 worker nodes az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --node-count 2 --enable-addons monitoring --generate-ssh-keys Display Details of Cluster az aks show --name myAKSCluster --resource-group myResourceGroup The above command will display Cluster details.
Step 4 - Create Azure Container Registry
Run the below command to create your own private container registry using Azure Container Registry (ACR). Make sure below red marked registry name is unique. az acr create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myacrrepo4321 --sku Standard --location centralus
Connect to the cluster az aks get-credentials --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --overwrite-existing To verify the connection to your cluster, use the kubectl get command to return a list of the cluster nodes. $ kubectl get nodes
$ kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces=true
For Deploying Docker images from ACR into AKS Cluster
When you're using Azure Container Registry (ACR) with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), an authentication mechanism needs to be established. You can set up the AKS to ACR integration in a few simple commands with the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. This integration assigns the AcrPull role to the managed identity associated to the AKS Cluster.
For Deploying Docker images from ACR into AKS Cluster
$ az aks update -n myAKSCluster -g myResourceGroup --attach-acr
Let's deploy some apps into AKS cluster.
Deploy Nginx App kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/website/master/content/en/examples/controllers/nginx-deployment.yaml
Once the deployment is created, use kubectl to check on the deployments by running this command:
$ kubectl get deployments
Clean up the cluster
To avoid Azure charges, you should clean up unneeded resources. When the cluster is no longer needed, use the az group delete command to remove the resource group, container service, and all related resources.
$ az group delete --name myResourceGroup --yes --no-wait