Hello, and welcome to the workshop. This is a 2-day hands-on workshop focused on setting up AKS along with additional technologies to make it adhere to the governance and security needs of highly regulated customers.
The workshop runs over 2 days and is meant to take an outside in approach. Meaning, we will start from the outside of the architecture and make our way inwards. It starts with focusing on Governance and Security decisions that need to be made before a single Azure resource is provisioned. We will then focus on decisions that need to get made prior to provisioning the cluster. Next, we will provision the cluster along with focusing on how to deploy common components post-provisioning. Once the cluster is configured, the next steps are to actually deploy workloads. Finally, when the workloads are deployed, we will focus on Day 2 operations when it comes to managing, maintaining and providing observability into the cluster.
The end goal is to take you from having a AKS setup that is unsecure by default, to an Enterprise ready configuration that is secure by default. To help understand what that means please see the following illustrations showing a before and after setup.
The following are the requirements to start.
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Azure Account | Azure Portal
- Ability to create AKS Clusters
- Ability to create Azure Service Principals or access to one that can create AKS Clusters
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Azure CLI | Install CLI
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Kubectl CLI | Install kubectl with Azure CLI
az aks install-cli
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Git | Git SCM
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GitHub Account | GitHub Account
- Required for GitOps Approach to Multi-Cluster Management
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Terraform | Terraform Download
- Minimum Version: v1.5.7+
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Code Editor | Install VS Code
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