Setup DevOps on AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) - Prerequisites

• Prerequisites
• Setup Build Pipelines (CI)
• Setup Release Pipelines (CD)
• What I learned

1. Tools for local environment

   • Azure CLI - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest
   • Docker Desktop - https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop
   • Helm - https://github.com/helm/helm/releases

2. Get your Azure subscription

   • Azure (12 months of free services and $200 in credit) - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/
   • Visual Studio Dev Essential - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/
   • Or your own subscription

3. Get your source control e.g. Azure DevOps, Github, etc

   Azure DevOps is free with up to 5 users - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/devops/

4. Login Azure Portal - https://portal.azure.com

   • Create an ACR (Azure Container Registry)

     

     If “Admin user” is enabled, [ACR Name] and [password1] or [password2] will be needed to run “docker login” locally before pull or push images.

       docker login --username [ACR Name] --password [Password] [ACR Name].azurecr.io
     

   • Create an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster

     Node size and Node count can be customized here

     

     PS: I didn’t enable RBAC in this example, but RBAC can be integrated with Azure AD https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/aad-integration later.

     

     Network can be customized if “Advanced” is selected