AKS
Kubernetes is designed as a management and orchestration service to assist with managing containers and creating a mechanism for scale. AKS is a serverless implementation of the Kubernetes service, which minimizes the management of the Kubernetes cluster for us. The service is designed so that you just take care of the agent nodes. Azure builds upon Kubernetes by enhancing some of its default implementations to enable functions, such as the following:
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Identity is integrated into Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and managed or the system identity can be used on the service.
- Azure VNet integration: Enable private networking natively to Azure networks, network security groups (NSGs), and even network policies.
- Persistent storage: Azure overcomes the ephemeral-based storage native to containers by enabling easy integration of persistent storage mechanisms such as Azure File Shares.
- Autoscaling: This function enables the autoscaling...