Industrial Use Cases of Azure Kubernetes Service

First let’s talk about the Kubernetes tool. Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool that is used to manage the containers and launch highly available application with the help of auto scaling and auto pod relaunch on failure. Kubernetes is much more than an orchestration tool due to the way the tool is built, it doesn’t matter if it is a cloud or server, the Kubernetes works the same way in it’s core except if we add any customized plugins. Due to this feature, it is very portable because you can change the clouds whenever you want to or even use multiple clouds to setup your cluster.

But setting up Kubernetes is a length process if not done right. This is the reason the clouds came up with the idea of managed cluster service and each cloud has one like: Amazon’s EKS, Azure’s AKS, GCP’s Kubernetes engine. Today we are going to talk about the AKS.

Let’s talk how AKS is different from the normal Kubernetes setup. In AKS, the instances used to create clusters are provided by the Azure VM services which are more optimized than most of our normal servers and they can be launched anywhere and we don’t need to worry about the maintenance.

But the normal Kubernetes can be launched in Azure’s VMs too. So why use AKS? Well, AKS also provides other resources from their cloud like load balancers for LoadBalancer service and storage devices for Storage Class in Kubernetes. These are very advanced Load Balancers because instead of port forwarding that we get with NodePort service, we get a static IP from the Azure cloud so that public can directly access your servers through the IP or you can set Domain name directly. And the storage volume provided by azure provide almost 100% of availability.

All these features are given directly and also Azure provides High availability for the Master node which is the most important node in the cluster and also creating a cluster is very easy as it just needs one command to launch a fully working cluster with all these features. You can also add azure addons like monitoring tools to our cluster by mentioning in the command or by using the Web portal directly.

So what are you waiting for? AKS has all the resources to provide a highly and available, durable and a portable Infrastructure with the help of fast and efficient containers and an orchestration tool like Kubernetes.

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