Building a Kubernetes cluster in Microsoft Azure

Install Azure CLI 2.0

See the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

Create a resource group

az group create -n ksachdeva-exp

Create a Azure Container Service (ACS)

# This command takes few minutes to complete
az acs create --orchestrator-type=kubernetes --resource-group ksachdeva-exp --name=ksachdeva-exp-acs --generate-ssh-keys

Notes:

• This command can easily take 5+ minute to complete
• If it goes over 10 minute then you may want to exit out of it and delete the resource group az group delete -n ksachdeva-exp and issue the command again.

Set your shell with the appropriate credentials

az acs kubernetes get-credentials --resource-group=ksachdeva-exp --name=ksachdeva-exp-acs

Various Examples

• A very basic example
• A basic server application
• A web app with database with a persistent disk