Designing a Production Grade Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS)

Create a fresh AKS cluster in the Azure portal by provisioning a new resource group, selecting node pools and sizes, enabling container monitoring, and configuring networking and authentication.

Demonstrates manual versus auto scaling in a Kubernetes cluster, configuring a horizontal pod autoscaler with min and max replicas and cpu thresholds, and validating scaling through load tests.

Learn how selectors and labels control pod scheduling, apply node affinity and taints with tolerations, and use ingress controllers, notably the application gateway, for layer seven traffic management.

Demonstrates step-by-step deployment of an application gateway ingress controller on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster creation, virtual network and subnet setup, public IP, and enabling the addon.

Deploy a Nginx ingress controller on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm, configure an external IP, and map it to a sample service, with notes on production security and dns routing.

Create and deploy persistent volume claims (PVCs) in AKS, selecting default or premium storage classes. Mount the PVC to pods, deploy, and validate the persistent storage setup in your cluster.

Demonstrate creating a snapshot of an Azure disk and restoring it to a new deployment in AKS, creating a disk from the snapshot and validating data.

Learn to integrate Azure Key Vault with AKS using the secret store CSI provider, create a Key Vault and secret, configure access policies, and mount the secret into a pod.

Rolling updates in a Kubernetes deployment within a namespace demonstrate updating the app image with zero downtime, while enforcing min ready, max surge, and max unavailable, with rollback.