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Azure Kubernetes Service overview - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure for DevOps: Containers
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…
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