Posted on January 18, 2023
Create an Azure account: You will need an Azure account to use AKS. You can sign up for a free trial at azure.com. Create an AKS cluster: Use the Azure portal or Azure CLI to create an AKS cluster. You will need to specify the number of nodes and the size of the nodes. Enter the keyword aks in the search bar at the top of the Azure portal. Click on Kubernetes services under the Services category in the search results: Go ahead and create a new cluster by hitting the + Add button, and selecting the + Add Kubernetes cluster option: Click Create new, give your resource group a name, and hit OK. Next, select the region and change the node count to 2 based on Node Size Standard DS2 v2 Hit the Review + create button to do a final review and create your cluster Once the deployment is completed successfully, find the small Cloud Shell icon near the search bar. The portal will ask you to select either PowerShell or Bash as your default shell experience. As we will be working mainly with Linux workloads, please select Bash If this is the first time you have launched Cloud Shell, you will be asked to create a storage account; confirm and create it: To get the required credentials to access your cluster, you need to type the following command: To verify that you have access, type the following: The output of the kubectl get nodes command You have learned the basics of containers and Kubernetes and set up a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Follow another article for Deployment with Kubernetes with sample exampleHere are the basic steps for using AKS:
Following are steps in AKS
Accessing your cluster using Azure Cloud Shell
az aks get-credentials \
--resource-group rg-tutorial-purpose \
--name aks-tutorial-purpose
kubectl get nodes