Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Made Easy: Updated May 2024

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction about instructor and course

Lecture 2: Good to have / Recommended background

Lecture 3: Connect with me

Chapter 2: Understanding containers

Lecture 1: What is a container and how is it different from a VM?

Lecture 2: Microservices architecture

Lecture 3: What are Docker, Dockerfile and Docker Hub?

Lecture 4: Creating our first container app (web app), pushing it to Docker Hub and running

Lecture 5: Create our 2nd container app (troubleshooting app), push it to DHub and run it

Lecture 6: Understanding why we need a container orchestrator, like Kubernetes

Chapter 3: What is Kubernetes?

Lecture 1: Introduction to Kubernetes

Lecture 2: Kubernetes architecture

Lecture 3: Self-managed vs Cloud-managed Kubernetes cluster

Chapter 4: Starting with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Lecture 1: What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

Lecture 2: Azure pricing, free account and AKS cost

Lecture 3: Considerations for saving cost on AKS

Lecture 4: Login to Azure and set the subscription

Lecture 5: Let's create our first AKS cluster

Lecture 6: Install CLI, explore Azure Cloud Shell, connect to the cluster

Lecture 7: aks-preview extension and feature registration

Lecture 8: Making our life easier with autocompletion, alias, Kubernetes and AKS extension

Lecture 9: PowerShell Basics in AKS – Connect to Azure, AKS creation, completion, aliases

Lecture 10: Imperative and declarative approaches

Lecture 11: Practice with Nodes, Pod, Deployment, Replicaset, DaemonSet, Service, Secret, CM

Lecture 12: Understanding our CIDRs

Lecture 13: What is a node pool?

Lecture 14: Connect to AKS nodes – quick demo

Lecture 15: Exploring the AKS cluster – Kubernetes side

Lecture 16: kubelet

Lecture 17: containerd

Lecture 18: azure-ip-masq-agent

Lecture 19: cloud-node-manager

Lecture 20: coredns

Lecture 21: coredns-autoscaler

Lecture 22: CSI

Lecture 23: konnectivity

Lecture 24: kube-proxy

Lecture 25: metrics-server

Lecture 26: Exploring the AKS cluster – Azure infrastructure side

Lecture 27: Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS)

Lecture 28: Virtual Network (VNET) and Subnet (SNET)

Lecture 29: Network Security Group (NSG)

Lecture 30: Route Table (RT)

Lecture 31: Load Balancer (LB) and Public IP (PIP)

Lecture 32: Managed Identity (MI)

Lecture 33: Important notes about AKS support policy

Lecture 34: Avoid this common mistake in AKS with the NRGLockdown feature

Lecture 35: Stop and Start feature

Lecture 36: About kubeconfig and how to work with multiple AKS clusters

Lecture 37: Deploy and manage a Kubernetes application (Extension) from Azure Marketplace

Lecture 38: Install kubectl plugins with krew

Chapter 5: Working with node pools and nodes

Lecture 1: VM types: VMSS (Scale Set) vs VMAS (Availability Set)

Lecture 2: Understanding System and User node pool types

Lecture 3: Connect to AKS nodes – using helper pod

Lecture 4: Connect to AKS nodes – via SSH using Azure Bastion

Lecture 5: Connect to AKS nodes – via SSH using a pod

Lecture 6: Connect to AKS nodes – run-command invoke

Lecture 7: Node's Operating Systems in AKS

Lecture 8: Node pool with AzureLinux (Mariner) OS

Lecture 9: Create Windows node pool and connect to nodes

Lecture 10: Schedule pods on specific node pools or specific OS type nodes

Lecture 11: Customize node configuration using az aks parameters

Lecture 12: Customize node configuration using DaemonSet

Lecture 13: OS disk types

Lecture 14: Default OS disk sizes

Lecture 15: Spot node pools

Lecture 16: GPU node pools

Lecture 17: Node pool snapshot

Lecture 18: Resize a node pool

Chapter 6: Networking in AKS

Lecture 1: Kubenet network plugin

Lecture 2: Azure CNI network plugin

Lecture 3: Azure CNI overlay network plugin

Lecture 4: Network plugins comparison

Lecture 5: Bring your own VNET/subnet, NSG and Route Table in AKS

Lecture 6: A deeper look into LoadBalancer Service in AKS

Lecture 7: Consideration when multiple NSGs are used

Lecture 8: Kubernetes Internal Load Balancer

Lecture 9: Use an Azure Private Link service to connect to an internal load balancer

Lecture 10: Understand VNET Peering

Lecture 11: SNAT in Azure

Lecture 12: Outbound types: Load Balancer, NAT Gateway and UserDefinedRouting (UDR)

Lecture 13: Create AKS with NAT Gateway

Lecture 14: Create AKS with UDR and Azure Firewall

Lecture 15: Learn how AKS works with HTTP Proxy

Lecture 16: Install mitmproxy on a VM

Lecture 17: Deploy an AKS cluster with HTTP Proxy

Lecture 18: Explore, update, and troubleshoot AKS with HTTP Proxy

Chapter 7: Types of clusters in relation to control plane access

Lecture 1: Types of clusters in relation to control plane access

Lecture 2: Explore public AKS cluster

Lecture 3: Create public AKS cluster with VNET integration

Lecture 4: API server authorized IP ranges