Research on industry use-cases of Azure Kubernetes Service

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. ... The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot.

Advantages of Kubernetes :

• Run distributed systems resiliently
• Automatically mount a storage system
• Automated rollouts and rollbacks
• Self-healing
• Secret and configuration management

What is Azure Kubernetes Service?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver and scale applications with confidence.

Features of AKS:-

1. Accelerate containerized application development

2. Increased operational efficiency.

Rely on built-in automated provisioning, repair, monitoring, and scaling. This checkbox-like experience helps you get up and running quickly and minimizes infrastructure maintenance.

3. Build on an enterprise-grade, more secure foundation

Advantages of AKS:-

• Efficient resource utilization
• Faster application development
• Security and compliance:
• Quicker development and integration

What AKS provides?

• Pay only for the nodes (VMs)
• Easier cluster upgrades
• Integrated with various Azure and OSS tools and services
• Kubernetes RBAC and Azure Active Directory Integration
• Enforce rules defined in Azure Policy across multiple clusters
• Kubernetes can scale your Nodes using cluster autoscaler
• Expand your scale even greater by scheduling your containers on Azure Container Instances

Azure Kubernetes Service Use Cases

1. Migration of existing applications
2. Simplifying the configuration and management of microservices-based Apps
3. Bringing DevOps and Kubernetes together
4. Ease of scaling
5. Data streaming

Common uses for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Easily migrate existing applications to the container(s) and run within the Azure-managed Kubernetes service (AKS).
• Microservices with AKS
• Secure DevOps for AKS
• Bursting from AKS with ACI
• Machine Learning model training with AKS
• Data Streaming scenario

How customers are using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

1. Hafslund uses containerized software for utility initiatives and to improve customer service

"We wanted a platform to speed development and testing but do it safely, without losing control over security and performance. That's why Azure and AKS are the perfect fit for us."

2. Siemens Healthineers moves more computing to the cloud to support value-based care development

"Using AKS puts us into a position to not only deploy our business logic in Docker containers, including the orchestration, but also … to easily manage the exposure and control."

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