Configuring network connections for AKS

We have covered AKS cluster deployment in one of the previous exercises. In this section, we will elaborate on some networking configurations to give you a better understanding of the options available to you.

Network configuration

The first component in your network configuration is the different types of networks that are available for you to deploy.

kubenet

This is the most basic networking service for AKS. With kubenet, an IP address is allocated from an Azure VNet to the nodes for a Pod. The Pods receive an IP address from an internal network that is deployed in a logically different address space from the VNet. Connections to these Pods are then performed through NAT connections that allow Pods to communicate to resources on the Azure VNet. This approach reduces the number of IP addresses required for your solution but disables the ability to directly connect to your containers.

Azure CNI

This is a more advanced implementation...