Azure Kubernetes Service overview

- [Instructor] Azure Kubernetes Service or AKS, … is a managed cloud service that simplifies building … and managing applications with Kubernetes. … But what does a manage service mean? … In the case of AKS, … it means that Microsoft is taking care … of some of the maintenance tasks related to the operation … of the Kubernetes Cluster. … A Kubernetes cluster is made of a control plane and nodes. … In Azure Kubernetes Service, … the Azure platform manages the control plane for us. … The Kubernetes nodes are provisioned automatically, … but still ultimately our responsibility. … When you create an AKS cluster, … Microsoft automatically creates and configures … the control plane for you. … The control plane provides core Kubernetes features … such as Pod scheduling, and service discovery. … The control plane is visible to us … as an Azure Kubernetes Service resource. … We can interact with the control plane … using Kubernetes APIs, kub Citadel, kub cadle … or the kubernetes Dashboard, … but we cannot work with the control plane directly. …