This multipart series offers a structured approach to successfully designing, deploying, and operating Azure Kubernetes Service and workloads. FastTrack Engineers from Azure CXP (customer experience) engineering will share Azure best practices based on official recommendations as well as real life customer scenarios and workloads.

Topics

This series structure aligns to any typical workload lifecycle: architecture design, deployment and operations:

1. Introduction + Networking
2. Security Best Practices
3. Cluster and Workload Deployments
4. Operations and Monitoring

The first two sessions cover architectural and design considerations that are difficult to reverse once a cluster has been deployed. The last two sessions focus on AKS in practice. Each session builds on content of previous sessions and thus it is recommended to attend all 4 sessions.

Series objectives

• Learn how to architect an AKS cluster according to documented best practices
• Understand how to leverage multiple Azure services, e.g. Azure Managed Grafana, Defender for Containers, as well as features e.g. cluster auto-upgrade to reduce operational overhead of running a Kubernetes cluster.
• Deployment and operations best practices for running AKS in production.

Intended Audience

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

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.