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So these are my first thoughts on the Hands on Kubernetes book by Nills Franssens et al…
It’s a solid book! I enjoyed especially the first chapter where it’s setting the stage for the demos / hands on work in the following chapters. Obviously there’s been some new additions in what capabilities Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has to offer since, which I’ll try to explain.
In chapter 2, the book asks you to create a new AKS cluster using the Azure Portal. THis could be done with CLI, ARM, or Terraform of course… The new thing here is the ability to create a cluster with Azure Arc. That allows you to use things like Azure Policy and Azure Monitor to control / observe your containers when you’re running them onprem (say using VMWare vSphere or Azure Stack HCl), or using Google Cloud or AWS. For now though we’ll just create a straight up cluster:
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