Industries Use-Cases of Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS)!

Hello Folks! In this Blog we’re going to discuss about AKS and use-cases of AKS. So, guys let’s get going…

What is Azure Kubernetes Service?

Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) is the best way to simplify and streamline Kubernetes so you can scale your app development with real confidence and agility. AKS is an ideal platform for developers to develop their modern applications using Kubernetes on the Azure architecture where Azure Container Instances are the pretty right choice to deploy containers on the public cloud. The Azure Container Instances help in reducing the stress on developers to deploy and run their applications on Kubernetes architecture.

Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS)has brought the solutions together that allow customers to create fully-managed Kubernetes clusters quickly and easily.

Azure Kubernetes Service offers provisioning, scaling, and upgrades of resources as per requirement or demand without any downtime in the Kubernetes cluster and the best thing about AKS is that you don’t require deep knowledge and expertise in container orchestration to manage AKS.

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is the standard for a container orchestration tool for provisioning and deployment of the containers. Kubernetes is a market-leading tool for container orchestration, and it is also portable as well as extensible to deploy any containerized application to any cloud. Kubernetes supports the Open Containers Initiative (OCI) runtime standard for container runtime platforms

Why we need AKS ?

Azure has developed a top-of-the-line Kubernetes orchestration platform, the Azure Kubernetes Service; it is well-integrated with Azure services (PaaS/IaaS) and DevOps services. The developer focuses mainly on the development of applications, not on cluster management activities. AKS would decrease the number of administrative tasks for cluster management.

Benefits of AKS :

1. Operate with ease & scale confidently

Deploy and manage containerized applications more easily with a fully managed Kubernetes service. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver and scale applications with confidence.

2. Accelerate containerized application development

Easily define, deploy, debug and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes applications and automatically containerize your applications. Add a full CI/CD pipeline to your AKS clusters with automated routine tasks and set up a canary deployment strategy in just a few clicks while gaining full visibility into your environment with control-plane telemetry, log aggregation and container health, accessible in the Azure portal and automatically configured for AKS clusters.

3. Enhanced security and compliance

To protect your customer data as you run application workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the security of your cluster is a key consideration. Kubernetes includes security components such as network policies and Secrets. Azure then adds in components such as network security groups and orchestrated cluster upgrades. These security components are combined to keep your AKS cluster running the latest OS security updates and Kubernetes releases, and with secure pod traffic and access to sensitive credentials.

4. Increased operational efficiency

Rely on built-in automated provisioning, repair, monitoring and scaling. This checkbox-like experience helps you get up and running quickly and minimizes infrastructure maintenance.

5. Run any workload in the cloud, at the edge or as a hybrid

Orchestrate any type of workload running in the environment of your choice. Whether you want to move .NET applications to Windows Server containers, modernize Java applications in Linux containers or run micro-services applications in the public cloud, at the edge or in hybrid environments, Azure has the solution for you.

Features of AKS:

The major features included in Azure Kubernetes Service, which will help you in terms of scalability, performance, security, governance etc., during container deployment and management.

1. Managed AKS:

• AKS simplifies the creation and delivery of cloud-native/container-based applications, which falls between the IaaS and PaaS level. Built-in features enable less administrative work while providing an option for deploying the serverless Azure function to the AKS cluster.
• The AKS Master Node (API Server, Scheduler, Controller Manager, etc.) is completely managed by Microsoft
• AKS supports both Windows and Linux based container deployment

Storage:

• Azure Kubernetes supports multiple storage solutions (persistent volume) such as Azure Disk Storage and Azure File for concurrent data access, NFA and Azure NetApp Files

Scalability:

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a leading Kubernetes managed solution
• It quickly helps to spin-up new clusters and it is very easy to maintain and run the clusters
• AKS completely supports a container’s scalability

Hybrid Cloud:

• To support the hybrid cloud deployment model, Kubernetes uses Azure Arc and Azure Stack to provide a more stable and faster environment

Azure DevOps:

• DevOps provides an agile board, repository, AKS container application pipeline and release
• Azure Monitor and AKS container monitoring provide information for monitoring containers such as processor, memory, log, etc.

Cost:

• The Azure Master node is fully run by Microsoft for free

Availability:

• AKS is a highly available (99.5% for API Server and VM node 99.9%**), secure, reliable and managed Kubernetes service from Microsoft Azure

Governance:

• Azure security center and Azure advisory service provides recommendations on governance, stability, best practices and suggestions on improving the AKS cluster.

Azure Kubernetes Service use cases:

• Migration of existing applications: You can easily migrate existing apps to containers and run them with Azure Kubernetes Service. You can also control access via Azure AD integration and SLA-based Azure Services like Azure Database using Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA).
• Simplifying the configuration and management of microservices-based Apps: You can also simplify the development and management of microservices-based apps as well as streamline load balancing, horizontal scaling, self-healing, and secret management with AKS.
• Bringing DevOps and Kubernetes together: AKS is also a reliable resource to bring Kubernetes and DevOps together for securing DevOps implementation with Kubernetes. Bringing both together, it improves the security and speed of the development process with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with dynamic policy controls.
• Ease of scaling: AKS can also be applied in many other use cases such as ease of scaling by using Azure Container Instances (ACI) and AKS. By doing this, you can use AKS virtual node to provision pods inside Azure Container Instance (ACI) that start within a few seconds and enables AKS to run with required resources. If your AKS cluster is run out of resources, if will scale-out additional pods automatically without any additional servers to manage in the Kubernetes environment.
• Data streaming: AKS can also be used to ingest and process real-time data streams with data points via sensors and perform quick analysis.

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