AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 4.5 - Azure Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.

• Open Source
  • Public code base and community involvement in the product
• Orchestration
  • Keeps track of lots of parts of a system. Makes sure containers are configured correctly to work together
• Automatic application deployment
  • Kubernetes will deploy more images of containers as needed
• Automatic scaling
  • Automatic monitoring of application load to determine when to scale the number of containers used

Azure Kubernetes Service

• Replicate Container Architectures
  • Reuse your container architecture by managing it in Kubernetes. This makes your setup quicker and confidence in the system increase
• Standard Azure Services Included
  • You don't have to worry about infrastructure and hardware. Get identity and access management, elastic provisioning and much more
• Global Reach
  • Use Kubernetes with supported Azure regions and on-premises installations using Azure Stack

Azure Container Registry (ACR)

• Keeps track of current valid container images
• Manages files and artifacts for containers
• Feeds container images to ACI and AKS
• Use Azure identity and security features