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The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

You're reading from  The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562325
Pages 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stéphane Eyskens Stéphane Eyskens
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Ed Price Ed Price
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Solution and Infrastructure
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started as an Azure Architect 3. Chapter 2: Solution Architecture 4. Chapter 3: Infrastructure Design 5. Chapter 4: Infrastructure Deployment 6. Section 2: Application Development, Data, and Security
7. Chapter 5: Application Architecture 8. Chapter 6: Data Architecture 9. Chapter 7: Security Architecture 10. Section 3: Summary
11. Chapter 8: Summary and Industry Scenarios 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

AKS infrastructure

AKS is an entire world within the Azure universe. This is by no means a service like the others. It is a partly managed service, as shown in Figure 3.18.

Figure 3.18 – AKS, a semi-managed service

Figure 3.18 – AKS, a semi-managed service

The control plane is the brain of AKS, and it is fully managed by Microsoft for free. Your duty as an Azure infrastructure architect is to take care of the worker nodes, which are plain virtual machines, connected to the brain via kubelet, the Kubernetes (K8s) primary node agent. It runs on each node, and the agent registers the node with the API server automatically. Rest assured, Azure comes with pre-defined node images, and you do not have to build the worker nodes yourself, just manage them. Although self-hosting a K8s cluster is even more demanding, you should not neglect the number of operations left to the cloud consumer when working with AKS. Unlike a fully managed PaaS or FaaS service, AKS requires special care and upfront analysis...

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