- Azure Container Service (AKS)
- A managed Kubernetes on Azure
- access and manage your cluster through "az aks" and "kubectl"
- an Azure-hosted control plane, automated upgrades, self-healing, easy scaling, and a simple user experience
- a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service or choose other orchestrators
- deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes
- a container hosting environment
- create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications
- deploy and manage container-based applications on Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes and the Docker image format
- Creating a Kubernetes cluster using Azure Container Service (AKS)
- expose the standard Kubernetes API endpoints
- AKS reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing a Kubernetes cluster by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure
- a hosted Kubernetes service
- Automated Kubernetes version upgrades and patching
- Easy cluster scaling
- Self-healing hosted control plane (masters)
- Cost savings - pay only for running agent pool nodes
- AKS does not provide direct access (such as with SSH) to the cluster