Create AKS cluster

This series of blog post will be help you to understand about the migration using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This article is to cover the Azure Kubernetes Cluster creation and deploying a  sample application  using local repository.
First of all you need to create the resource Group and specially need to select the correct Location for that. You can run the below command to do that

$ az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus

To create the AKS Cluster, you can use the below command. Node count and the  monitoring can be define there itself

$ az aks create --resource-group HemalAKS --name hemalAKSCluster --node-count 1 --enable-addons monitoring --generate-ssh-keys

Once this is executed, You will get the below output.

To configure kubectl to connect to your Kubernetes cluster, use the az aks get-credentials command.

$ az aks get-credentials --resource-group HemalAKS --name HemalAKSCluster

To check whether you connected to the cluster you can run Kubectl get Namespace  command.
If you have more than one cluster and want to check whether you are in the the collect place then you can run
$ Kubectl cluster-infor    Command and see whether you are in the the correct cluster.

I’ using a sample code provided by Microsoft and the repo location is as below,

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-voting-app-redis.git

Use git to clone the sample application to your development environment:

git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-voting-app-redis.git

Then change the directory in to the cloned directory. For that you can run

$ cd azure-voting-app-redis

Inside this directory is the application source code, a pre-created Docker compose file, and a Kubernetes manifest file. going to use those files to run this.
To create the Container Image
Here i’m using Doker and hope you have already configured the Docker in your PC. Then run,

docker-compose up -d

Then the Docker image will be created locally and you can check the Docker Image status by running

$ docker images

$ docker ps     will show you the running containers

To deploy this locally created Image into the Azure AKS cluster you can run

$ kubectl apply -f dockerise_image_name.yaml

This will deploy the Image into the created cluster and by running kubectl services or kubectl -n get services    you will be able to see the network detail of the created pod in the AKS cluster.

Next post will see how to deploy this Image in the ACR and to the deployments.