Task21:- Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) Industry Use Case
What is AKS:- AKS is an open-source fully managed container orchestration service that became available in June 2018 and is available on the Microsoft Azure public cloud that can be used to deploy, scale and manage Docker containers and container-based applications in a cluster environment.
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.
Why AKS:-
AKS helps in minimizing infrastructure maintenance, using automated upgrades, repair, monitoring and scaling. This leads to faster development and integration. It helps in provisioning additional compute capacity in Serverless Kubernetes in a matter of seconds, without worrying about how to manage the infrastructure. It provides some benefits:-
- Efficient resource utilization
- Security and compliance
- Quicker development and integration
- Faster application development
- Run any Workload in the Cloud
- Reduces Expenditure
Azure is Product of Microsoft so Microsoft provides free Azure Credits to user to make them familiar with AKS. This is the very fast growing Cloud product now a days as use of cloud as well as K8S is increasing day by day to make everything automated . They charge very low as well as minutes and hourly basis. Also the User interface of Azure is far better than any other cloud service.
Use Cases of Azure Kubernetes Service
- 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).
- AKS usage is typically limited to container-based application deployment and management, but there are numerous use cases for the service within that scope.
- 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.
- AKS usage can complement agile software development paradigms, such as continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CD) and DevOps. For example, a developer could place a new container build into a repository, such as GitHub, move those builds into ACR, and then rely on AKS to launch the workload into operational containers.
- 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.
- For example, an organization could use AKS to automate and streamline the migration of applications into containers: first, it could move the application into a container, register the container with ACR, and then use AKS to launch the container into a preconfigured environment. Similarly, AKS can deploy, scale, and manage diverse groups of containers, which helps with the launch and operation of microservices-based applications.
Conclusion
Kubernetes is one of the solutions that is open-sourced and supports building and deploying cloud-native apps with complete orchestration. Azure Kubernetes Service is a robust and cost-effective container orchestration service that helps you to deploy and manage containerized applications in seconds where additional resources are assigned automatically without the headache of managing additional servers. AKS nodes are scaled-out automatically as the demand increases. It has numerous benefits such as security with role-based access, easy integration with other development tools, and running any workload in the Kubernetes cluster environment.
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