Goals

Deploy AKS following several methods / best practices described on the Microsoft learn website with several technologies.

Deployment status

Automatic deployment

Azure DevOps pipeline :

Manual deployment

• Ansible
• Powershell

• cd .\cloud\azure\ansible
  # Mount azure credentials
  docker run --rm -it -v C:\Users\Administrator\azure_config_ansible.cfg:/root/.azure/credentials -v "$(Get-Location):/myapp:rw" -w /myapp local/ansible bash
  
  # Use environment file
  docker run --rm -it --env-file C:\Users\Administrator\azure_credentials  -v "$(Get-Location)/ansible:/ansible:rw" -v "$(Get-Location)/inventory:/inventory:rw" -w /ansible local/ansible bash
  
  # Create cluster
  ansible-playbook aks_cluster_create.yml -i /inventory/root/
  
  # Assign permission : need User Managed identities principal id before
  ansible-playbook aks_cluster_permissions_assign.yml -i /inventory/root/
  
  # Configure cluster
  ansible-playbook aks_cluster_configure.yml -i /inventory/root/
  

• cd .\cloud\azure\powershell
  
  & .\scripts\aks\01-Deploy-AKS.ps1  
  

Sources

• https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/containers/aks/baseline-aks
• https://github.com/mspnp/aks-baseline
• https://github.com/mspnp/aks-fabrikam-dronedelivery
• https://stacksimplify.com/azure-aks/azure-kubernetes-service-introduction/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/azure/aks/operator-best-practices-storage
• https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/azure/aks/azure-csi-disk-storage-provision#dynamically-provision-a-volume

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Table of contents

• Prerequisites
• Create Cluster
• Configure Cluster
• Update an existing Cluster
• Deploy test application
• Deploy postgresql
• All in one debug script
• aks commands

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