AKS Engine - Units of Kubernetes on Azure!

AKS Engine is a legacy ARM template-driven way to provision a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure.

Overview

AKS Engine provides tooling to quickly bootstrap Kubernetes clusters on Azure. By leveraging ARM (Azure Resource Manager), AKS Engine helps you create, destroy and maintain clusters provisioned with basic IaaS resources in Azure. AKS Engine is limited in its support for ongoing operational needs such as scaling, in-place upgrading, and extension management. The Cluster API Provider for Azure a.k.a. CAPZ provides more complete operational capabilities. AKS Engine remains the tool for managing Kubernetes clusters on Azure Stack Hub as CAPZ does not yet work there.

Getting started

• Read the CLI Overview for a list of features provided by the aks-engine command line tool.

• The Quickstart Guide describes how to download the latest release of aks-engine for your environment, and demonstrates how to use aks-engine to create a Kubernetes cluster on Azure that you will manage and customize.

• The complete body of documentation can be found here.

Please see the FAQ for answers about AKS Engine and its progenitor ACS-Engine.

Join the community

If you are committed to using AKS Engine longer term and would like to become a project maintainer, please reach out to us via the #aks-engine-dev Slack channel! The community guide covers everything you need to know about the AKS Engine community and how you can contribute. The developer guide will help you onboard as a developer. The AKS Engine community is committed to integrating and validating new versions of Kubernetes into AKS Engine. We encourage AKS Engine users to evaluate moving to CAPZ as it provides stronger support for managing the cluster lifecycle compared to AKS Engine.

Support

Please see our support policy.

Code of conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Data Collection

The software may collect information about you and your use of the software and send it to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may turn off the telemetry as described in the repository. There are also some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications. If you use these features, you must comply with applicable law, including providing appropriate notices to users of your applications together with a copy of Microsoft's privacy statement. Our privacy statement is located at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824704. You can learn more about data collection and use in the help documentation and our privacy statement. Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

For more information, please see the telemetry documentation.