AKS-Azure Kubernetes Service

AKS is a good example of INFRASTRUCTURE as a Service and PLATFORM as a Service. Here as we know Azure is a public -Cloud that provides Infrastructure as a service and we use Kubernetes as an orchestration tool for containers. And as we also know we can also use this as a Plateform at which we can launch our containerized application with high-availability and scalable as peruse. Azure also provides a service in which they give as a pre-build Kubernetes master node and they it-self manage all the resources we only have to j say our requirement, all the management and technical work they do for us. One example of this is AKS this a fully Azure-managed Kubernetes service that will provide us a Kubernetes cluster over the Azure cloud.

Kubernetes:

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation.

Azure AKS Overview

With AKS, you can deploy, scale, and manage Docker containers and applications. Azure AKS gives developers greater flexibility, automation, and reduced management overhead for administrators and developers. This is because it’s a managed service, which takes some of the management burdens off the user.

As applications grow to span multiple containers deployed across multiple servers, operating them becomes more complex. To manage this complexity, Azure AKS provides an open-source API to deploy, scale and manage Docker containers and container-based applications across a cluster of container hosts.

Use cases for AKS include:

• Easily migrating existing applications to Kubernetes
• Simplifying the deployment and management of microservices-based applications
• Easily integrated DevSecOps
• IoT device deployment and management on demand
• Machine Learning model training with AKS

AKS Benefits:

Efficient resource utilization: The fully managed AKS offers easy deployment and management of containerized applications with efficient resource utilization that elastically provisions additional resources without the headache of managing the Kubernetes infrastructure.

Faster application development: Developers spent most of the time on bug-fixing. AKS reduces the debugging time while handling patching, auto-upgrades, and self-healing and simplifies the container orchestration. It definitely saves tons of your time and developers will specialize in developing their apps while remaining more productive.

Security and compliance: Cybersecurity is one of the foremost important aspects of recent applications and businesses. AKS integrates with Azure Active Directory (AD) and offers on-demand access to the users to greatly reduce threats and risks.

Quicker development and integration: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) supports auto-upgrades, monitoring, and scaling and helps in minimizing the infrastructure maintenance that results in comparatively faster development and integration.

Case Study of Wind river:

• Wind River Cloud Platform combines a fully cloud-native, Kubernetes, and container-based architecture with the ability to manage a physically and geographically separated infrastructure for vRAN and core data center sites.
• Reducing service providers’ operational burden and costs, the platform delivers single-pane-of-glass, zero-touch automated management of thousands of nodes.
• Cloud Platform is a commercially supported version of StarlingX and lends itself to demanding 5G use cases applicable across mission-critical industries.

Wind River has been a long-standing contributor to open source projects. We are excited to have Wind River as a member of CNCF and we look forward to their contributions and collaboration to drive container technology to the edge,” said Dan Kohn, executive director of Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “With Wind River Cloud Platform, Wind River is helping to further advance technologies such as Kubernetes at the edge.”

Conclusion:

Based on our observation of AKS, it is a proven instrument to simplify container orchestration.

The various features of Azure Kubernetes Service can provide developers with the ease of deploying and managing containers.

The specific application of Kubernetes in Azure provides important benefits such as automatic upgrades.