aks-production-patterns/README.md

# WORK IN PROGRESS

This repo is a **WORK IN PROGRESS**.

# AKS Production Patterns

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This repo was created to help organizations understand the patterns they will need to think about as they move AKS workloads into production.

## Sections

The repo has been broken into 4 distinct patterns that we are seeing as our more mature customers adopt AKS. The sections do not have to be done in order, they stand by themselves.

- [Cluster Management](cluster-management/README.md)
- [Observability](observability/README.md)
- [Security](security/README.md)
- [Service Mesh](servicemesh/README.md)

## Sample Agenda

The following is a sample agenda of what a 2-day engagement might look like.

### Day 1

- Review of base AKS platform capabilities and configuration (15 minutes)
- Production Ready AKS Architecture Overview & Networking Design (45 Mins)
- Cluster Management (~ 1/2 Day)
  - Namespaces, RBAC, Limits, Quotas
  - GitOps and Multicluster Management
  - Cluster and Nodepool Upgrades / Patching
  - Cost Management
  - Cluster Management Hands-on Challenge
  - Future – Azure Arc for Kubernetes
- Observability (~ 1/2 Day)
  - Logging & Monitoring Tooling at Cluster/Node/Pod Levels
  - Alerting (Logs, Metrics, Policy)
  - Threat detection
  - App Telemetry
  - Observability Hands-on Challenge
  - Future – Azure Security Center Integration

### Day 2

- Security (~ 1/2 Day)
  - Secrets Management – AAD Pod Identity + Key Vault
  - Image Management – Build-time & Run-time Scanning
  - Azure Policy with OPA / Gatekeeper
  - Security Hands-on Challenge
  - Future – AKS + Azure Policy + Azure Container Registry
- Service Mesh (~ 1/2 Day)
  - Capabilities
  - Planning for Service Mesh
  - Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
  - Service Mesh Hands-on Challenge
- Patterns to Consider (1 Hour)
  - CI/CD (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
  - Serverless, KEDA
  - Cloud Native ML / MLOps on Kubernetes
- Wrap-up (30 mins)
  - Share Lessons Learned

## Prerequisites

The following are the requirements to **start**.

- Azure Account [Azure Portal](https://portal.azure.com)

  - Ability to create AKS Clusters
  - Ability to create Azure Service Principals or access to one that can create AKS Clusters

- Azure CLI [Install CLI](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest)

  - Minimum Version: 2.1.0
  - AKS Preview Extension: 0.4.30
  - Firewall Extension Version: 0.3.0

- Kubectl CLI [Install kubectl with Azure CLI](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-walkthrough#connect-to-the-cluster)

  - Minimum Version: 1.15.0

- Git [Git SCM](https://git-scm.com/downloads)

  - Minimum Version: 2.22

- GitHub Account [GitHub Account](https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/signing-up-for-a-new-github-account)

  - Required for GitOps Approach to Multi-Cluster Management

- Terraform [Terraform Download](https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html)

  - Minimum Version: v0.12.21

- Docker Community Edition (CE)[Install CE](https://docs.docker.com/v17.09/engine/installation/)

  - [Install Docker for Mac](https://docs.docker.com/v17.09/docker-for-mac/install/)
  - [Install Docker for Windows](https://docs.docker.com/v17.09/docker-for-windows/install/)

- Code Editor [Install VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/download)

## Fork the Repo

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[Forking a Repository](https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo)

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