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Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

by Wayne Hoggett

Kubernetes is the industry standard for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications. This course will teach you how to secure the cluster API and configure node and pod scaling.

What you'll learn

As organizations adopt cloud-native applications and services, the need for effective management and orchestration of containerized workloads becomes crucial. In this course, Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you’ll learn how to manage networking for the AKS cluster API and how to configure scaling. First you’ll explore the available options for securing access to the AKS cluster API at the network layer, which will improve defense in depth by providing an additional layer of security in addition to the authentication and authorization layer. Next, you’ll learn how to configure scaling for your AKS cluster and its workloads, by first exploring how to configure node scaling, and then moving up into the workloads and exploring how to configure pod scaling. Finally, you’ll explore how you can take advantage of low-cost compute with spot instances and rapidly burst capacity using Azure Container Instances (ACI). By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of managing AKS needed to secure the AKS cluster API and manage AKS scaling.

About the author

I’m based in sunny Brisbane Australia. I have about 20 years’ experience in Microsoft infrastructure and Cloud. I am very committed to lifelong learning. I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and have earned over 20 certifications from Microsoft, Terraform, and more throughout my career.

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