Chapter 8: Deploying a Hybrid Azure Kubernetes Service Engine Cluster

1. AKS is a fully managed Kubernetes cluster offering by Azure. AKS Engine is an official, open source tool for provisioning self-managed Kubernetes clusters on Azure. Internally, AKS uses AKS Engine, but they cannot manage clusters created by one another.
2. AKS Engine generates an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template based on a supplied configuration file (cluster apimodel). Then, you can use this ARM template to deploy a fully functional, self-managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure infrastructure.
3. No. Even if AKS internally uses AKS Engine, it is not possible to use AKS Engine to manage AKS and vice versa.
4. The Azure CLI, Azure Cloud Shell, kubectl, and optionally the SSH client for Windows if you would like to connect to the nodes using SSH.
5. AKS Engine uses the apimodel (or cluster definition) JSON file to generate...