AKS cluster creation in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

AKS Cluster Creation

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud engineer for a company that wants to deploy containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Your task is to create a basic AKS cluster with essential configurations.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster configuration using Azure CLI commands step-by-step.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group named myResourceGroup in the eastus region.

Define the AKS cluster name as myAKSCluster.

Create the AKS cluster with 2 nodes of size Standard_DS2_v2.

Enable monitoring add-on for the AKS cluster.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Creating AKS clusters is a common task for deploying containerized applications in Azure cloud environments.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals frequently create and manage AKS clusters to support scalable and managed Kubernetes workloads.

1

Create the Azure resource group

Use the Azure CLI command to create a resource group named myResourceGroup in the eastus region.

Azure

# Use az group create command to create the resource group
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The command az group create creates a resource group. Use --name to specify the group name and --location for the region.

2

Define the AKS cluster name variable

Create a shell variable called AKS_CLUSTER_NAME and set it to myAKSCluster.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
# Define AKS_CLUSTER_NAME variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=myAKSCluster to define the variable in shell.

3

Create the AKS cluster with 2 nodes

Use the Azure CLI command to create an AKS cluster named $AKS_CLUSTER_NAME in the resource group myResourceGroup with 2 nodes of size Standard_DS2_v2.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=myAKSCluster
# Create AKS cluster with 2 nodes and Standard_DS2_v2 size
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az aks create with --resource-group, --name, --node-count, and --node-vm-size. Add --generate-ssh-keys to create SSH keys automatically.

4

Enable monitoring add-on for the AKS cluster

Update the AKS cluster creation command to enable the monitoring add-on by adding --enable-addons monitoring.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=myAKSCluster
az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name $AKS_CLUSTER_NAME --node-count 2 --node-vm-size Standard_DS2_v2 --generate-ssh-keys
# Add monitoring addon to the AKS cluster creation command
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Add --enable-addons monitoring to the az aks create command to enable monitoring.