How to create AKS cluster in the Azure portal | How to connect to AKS cluster in Azure Portal

 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

AKS allows you to quickly deploy a production ready Kubernetes cluster in Azure, deploy and manage containerized applications more easily with a fully managed Kubernetes service. 

AKS reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance for you. The Kubernetes masters are managed by Azure. You only manage and maintain the agent nodes. As a managed Kubernetes service, AKS is free - you only pay for the agent nodes within your clusters, not for the masters.

We will see how to create AKS cluster in portal Azure.

1. go to https://portal.azure.com/#home

2. Click on Kubernetes services

3. Click on Add Kubernetes Cluster

 

4. Click on Add Kubernetes Cluster

 Enter information below:

 

 

5. Enter node count as 2, choose standard size

6. Click on Create after making sure validations are passed:
 

This is will take at least 2 to 5 mins to create AKS clusters. If all goes well, you should be able to see the cluster.

Once it is created, go to Kubernetes Services, click on cluster name.

 

 

How to connect to AKS cluster using Azure CLI

Now click on the cluster name, click on connect.

Make sure you have Azure CLI is installed on your local machine in order to connect to AKS cluster.

Connect to Azure portal using Azure CLI first.

az login

Enter your Microsoft credentials

az account set --subscription subscription_id

az aks get-credentials --resource-group AKS-POC --name AKS-POC

# List all deployments in a specific namespace
kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces=true

# List all deployments in a specific namespace
kubectl get deployments --namespace kube-system

 

Please watch the above steps in YouTube video: