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Using AKS

Using AKS

- Hi. In this lesson we're going to look at the Azure Kubernetes Service or AKS. Now AKS is Microsoft's implementation of Kubernetes and one of the benefits of AKS is that the complexity of building, deploying, and to a certain extent maintaining a Kubernetes cluster is fully abstracted away leaving you to concentrate on your apps. Now I say to a certain extent because in fact I often see AKS as a halfway house between platform as a service and infrastructure service. And this because Azure takes care of the management plane. That is all the bits that you need to actually run and manage a cluster, but still uses classic VMs for the actual workloads. Now as a managed service or half-managed service, I sometimes found it useful to deploy cluster with some be options, and then have a look round see what options we have when it gets deployed. And in this way we get a much better feel for the overall architecture. So we're looking…

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