Kubernetes On Azure

Kubernetes - #2 on Holiday Techie Fun Project List

So yesterday I posted on this blog for the first time since 6/16 (is that 18 months?!). In that post I shared my Holiday Techie Fun Project List in which I have listed my candidate geeky projects for the holiday season. Project #1 was getting this blog back to the point where I could easily manage it again - this time on Windows using Bash Shell.

Today’s project, which I started last night, is to stand up a sample app running in Azure’s new Kubernetes Service (AKS). I’m happy to report that I finished that one early this afternoon. There were two primary articles that helped guide me through.

• Scott Hanselman’s Blog - Setting up AKS in Minutes
• Azure Docs - AKS Walkthrough

These are both similar. The Hanselman’s post had some extra coolness at the end to launch the Kubernetes Dashboard. Also his article included the parameter to create a single node cluster (the default is three node). I worked on this both in the portal CLI and the local CLI. The local CLI has the extra step of requiring a login (az login).

There were a number of issues that I ran into getting this running. The biggest was that I kept getting bad request for missing registrations on Microsoft.Network and Microsoft.Compute. I’m still not clear on why, but the following seemed to fix the issue.

• az provider register -n Microsoft.Compute
• az provider register -n Microsoft.Network

Also note that I created a three node cluster. I’m not sure about the cost etc. so I was sure to tear it down at the end.

• az group delete -n davidmcdAKSrg –yes

This was super fun and I learned lots. I can’t wait to get started on tomorrow’s project.