Deploying and inspecting your first application

In this section, we will perform a similar exercise as in the previous chapter – we are going to deploy a sample ASP.NET Core 3.0 application (using a Deployment Object) to our AKS Engine cluster and demonstrate basic kubectl operations. Many aspects of working with an AKS Engine cluster remain the same as in the case of on-premises clusters – the biggest difference is that you can easily utilize Azure features and integrations. To demonstrate this, we will expose the application using a service of type LoadBalancer instead of NodePort. Thanks to the Kubernetes cloud provider for Azure, the LoadBalancer service will be natively integrated with an Azure Load Balancer instance.

Basic operations

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