I decided to dedicate 2021 to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and yesterday I held the first Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) workshop under my Infrastructure as Code user group.

This is an introduction level workshop targeted to those of you who have never worked with neither AKS nor Kubernetes and covers the basics of using Kubernetes on Azure.

10 labs 100% hands-on, 4 hours and super awesome participants!

As always, labs are available and you are welcome to work with them.

Some funny (or not really) facts. During the workshop my main PC died after 2++ hours, and shortly after I restarted everything at my “Plan-B” laptop, it gave me the “blue screen of death” as well…

Luckily after the second restart all worked well…

Here is workshops road-map for 2021-2022:

• AKS Workshop #1 - Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• AKS Workshop #2 - Advanced AKS configuration
• AKS Workshop #3 - Immutable AKS infrastructure with Bicep
• AKS Workshop #4 - GitOps in AKS with Flux
• AKS Workshop #5 - scaling options for applications and clusters in AKS
• AKS Workshop #6 - Monitoring options in AKS
• AKS Workshop #7 - Service mesh with linkerd
• AKS Workshop #8 - AKS security

You can also check out my previous Infrastructure As Code workshops:

• Working with Azure Network Watcher
• Working with Azure Private Links
• Automate DNS and Certificate management on Azure with Azure DevOps
• Load-Balancing Options on Azure
• Automate Azure workload provisioning with Bicep, Powershell and Azure DevOps
• How to live in harmony with ARM templates
• Implement immutable infrastructure on Azure with ARM templates
• Implement immutable infrastructure with Pulumi: Part I
• Implement immutable infrastructure with Pulumi: Part II
• Immutable AKS infrastructure with Bicep

and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) workshops:

• AKS Workshop #1 - Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• AKS Workshop #2 - Advanced AKS configuration
• AKS Workshop #3 - Immutable AKS infrastructure with Bicep
• AKS Workshop #4 - GitOps in AKS with Flux
• AKS Workshop #5 - scaling options for applications and clusters in AKS
• AKS Workshop #6 - Monitoring options in AKS

With that - thanks for reading!