ARTH — Task 21 👨🏻‍💻

Task Description📄

✍🏻 Research for industry use cases of Azure Kubernetes Service and create a blog, Article, or Video elaborating how it works.

AZURE KUBERNETES SERVICES

• AKS is a managed container orchestration platform that has its foundation in the open-source Kubernetes system.
• AKS is available on Microsoft Azure public cloud, and its applications are ideal for deploying, scaling and managing Docker containers. Also, container-based applications come within the scope of AKS.
• Microsoft Azure is one of the foremost players in the cloud computing market presently.
• On the other hand, we also have Kubernetes as the top instrument for the management of application containers.
• The drastic rise in the application of both these tools in enterprise use cases is explicitly evident.
• Kubernetes provides a platform for automation of deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.
• Also, Kubernetes helps in reducing the cost of cloud computing investments alongside simplifying architecture and operations.
• Therefore, Azure Kubernetes Service combines the functionalities of Kubernetes and Microsoft Azure for better outcomes in application development.

MAIN FEATURES OF AKS

1. Security, Access, and Monitoring
2. Clusters and Nodes
3. Virtual Networks and Ingress
4. Development Tooling Integration

USE CASES OF AKS

BOSCH

Using AKS was a strategic decision. We looked for a managed orchestrator so we could offload the work of patching, upgrading, and production-level services. That’s why we chose AKS — and it’s a very open, flexibleplatform.

Hai Dang Le: technical lead Bosch

• Bosch invests heavily in research and development (R&D), staffing more than 70,000 employees in R&D alone. These R&D staffers, along with 27,000 software and IT experts and 1,000 AI specialists, help maintain its position as Europe’s top provider of automotive solutions.
• The team decided to offload the work of scaling and cluster maintenance to a managed service in a public cloud with a global reach. Azure Kubernetes Service was the obvious choice.
• The key was orchestration. By orchestrating the deployment of containers using AKS, Bosch would get repeatable, manageable clusters of containers
• AKS also offered the simplicity of a managed Kubernetes service in the cloud. It provided the elastic provisioning that Bosch wanted, without the need to manage its own infrastructure.
• The developers can deploy self-managed AKS clusters as needed, and they get the benefit of running their services within a secured network environment.

An architectural overview of the Bosch wrong-way warning driver service on Azure

CONCLUSION

*Major use cases included a reference to simple and faster deployment and management of container-based applications. Presently, AKS is gaining recognition gradually and will be the benchmark for exclusive container orchestration platforms in the future.