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Wesley Haakman
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Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family.
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Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies – you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.
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Deploying containers to AKS

Before we start deploying the actual AKS resources, we need that place for our cluster to live again. Let’s create a resource group using the following command:

az group create `
  --name rg-aks `
  --location westeurope

Once the resource group is created, we should see similar output to that shown in Figure 6.2, stating that the provisioning of our resource group succeeded.

Figure 6.2 – Resource group creation

Figure 6.2 – Resource group creation

Now that we have verified that the resource group is there, let’s create an AKS cluster! For this, we will be using only a few parameters. However, please note that when you want to add more features and go all out, the set of parameters may grow significantly:

az aks create `
--location westeurope `
--resource-group rg-aks `
--name aks `
--generate-ssh-keys

This command will create an AKS cluster in the westeurope region in your designated resource group. The cluster...

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Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family.
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Richard Hooper

Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies – you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.
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