Microsoft has invested billions in Azure to drive technology and also hired best of the minds on this planet. From last few months, Azure has been launching new container-focused products and services on a regular basis. One of these products is Azure Container Instances. It acts as a bridge between platform as a service and infrastructure as a service architecture. Perhaps it would be okay to call this service as “Container as a Service”. Azure Container Instances (ACI) allows to rapidly create and launch containerized applications, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands. Designed to work Read More »
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Deploy kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service from Ubuntu based build server
Azure Container Service is an offering from Microsoft which makes it simple to create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. The following guide is based on steps mentioned in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/kubernetes/container-service-kubernetes-walkthrough but deviates a little. First, the guide is based on using Azure Cloud Shell which creates two issues. In my experience, this cloud shell is not ready for prime time usage as you will keep getting issues like authentication failure, for some reason the shell will expire after every 20 mins, etc. Also CI/CD cannot be build on top of the cloud shell.
Most likely scenario would be using a CI/CD tool like Jenkins, VSTS etc. using a custom agent and then you would need to run shell commands for deploying containers. In this blog post, we’ll examine how to prepare a ubuntu based workstation for this and deploy a kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service.
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