In the first two sessions we examined how to design an AKS cluster with networking and security best practices. Now we will discuss challenges and best practices for deploying and managing one or multiple clusters.

Important: this session is part of 4-part series on Azure Kubernetes Service AKS. Please visit the series overview to learn about and register for all four sessions.

Topics Covered

• Landing Zone considerations
• Deployment options - Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Azure Accelerators
• Multiple Environments - pre-production vs production clusters and workloads
• Deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and GitOps

Learning Objectives
In this session, you will learn how to:

• Understand deployment strategies for deploying AKS clusters and workloads
• Understand considerations for integrating with other workloads on Azure

Pre-requisite: Basic Kubernetes knowledge required

• Basic understanding of Azure as a platform
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals and core concepts.
  Refer to this Microsoft learn module on Introduction to Kubernetes, especially how Kubernetes works lesson before joining this session.

Intended Audience
This series is relevant for all technical roles, e.g. architects, application engineers, as well as platform and operations engineers.

Engage live with FastTrack engineers
Each session in this AKS series includes a dedicated anonymous Q&A.

#fasttrack-azure This event is not recorded so feel free to come off mute and ask questions directly to the engineers. Check out more FastTrack events