Create ASK Cluster using Console

Create Azure AKS Cluster

- Subscription: your-subscription

- Resource Group: Creat New: you-resource-group

- Cluster preset configuration: Standard

- Kubernetes Cluster Name: your-cluster-name

- Region: (US) Central US

- Availability zones: Zones 1, 2, 3

- AKS Pricing Tier: Free

- Kubernetes Version: Select what ever is latest stable version

- Automatic upgrade: Enabled with patch (recommended)

- Node Size: Standard D2s v2 (Default one)

- Scale method: Autoscale

- Node Count range: 1 to 5

- Node Pools

- leave to defaults

- Access

- Authentication and Authorization: Local accounts with Kubernetes RBAC

- Rest all leave to defaults

- Networking

- Network Configuration: Azure CNI

- Review all the auto-populated details

- Virtual Network

- Cluster Subnet

- Kubernetes Service address range

- Kubernetes DNS Service IP Address

- DNS Name prefix

- Traffic routing: leave to defaults

- Security: Leave to defaults

- Integrations

- Azure Container Registry: None

- All leave to defaults

- Advanced

- All leave to defaults

- Tags

- leave to defaults

- Review + Create

- Click on Create

Once cluster created execute below commands to access cluster from your local machine

# Install Azure CLI (MAC)
brew update && brew install azure-cli


# Login to Azure
az login
# Install Azure AKS CLI
az aks install-cli
# Configure Cluster Creds (kube config)
az aks get-credentials --resource-group your-resource-group-name --name you-cluster-name

# List Kubernetes Worker Nodes

kubectl get nodes

kubectl get nodes -o wide

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

kubectl get all

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