Azure Kubernetes Service

Deploy and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters on Azure with AKS. Covers cluster creation, node pool management, networking, ingress controllers, monitoring, security, and Terraform-based provisioning.

When to Use

• You need managed Kubernetes without maintaining control plane infrastructure.
• Your workloads require container orchestration with auto-scaling.
• You need tight integration with Azure AD, Key Vault, and Container Registry.
• You are running microservices that require service mesh, ingress, or network policies.
• You need GPU or spot node pools for specialized or cost-optimized workloads.

Confirm subscription, cluster/context, budget, quotas, region/zone/SKU support and rollback before mutations. Examples are partial and version-sensitive: inspect current AKS and AzureRM provider schemas, supported Kubernetes upgrade paths and pod-disruption budgets. get-credentials changes local kubeconfig/current context. Do not manually scale an autoscaler-controlled pool without coordinating the autoscaler. Use existing secret references for Grafana credentials, not command-line values.

Prerequisites