Step By Step Guide to Create Kubernetes Service on Microsoft Azure

Kubernetes is a free & open-source container-orchestration system. It is used for automating system application deployment, scaling, & management. It enables the operation of an elastic web server framework for cloud applications.

There are some steps to create Kubernetes service on Microsoft azure:

• First login into azure portal.
• Click on All Services –> Containers—> Kubernetes service.

• Click on Create —> Create a Kubernetes cluster.

• Select a Subscription.
• Create or select existing resource group.

• Provide a Kubernetes cluster name.
• Select Region & Availability zone.
• Select Kubernetes version & Node size.
• Select Scale Method : Manual or Auto-scale.
• Select Node count range.Click on Next Node-pools.

• By default,One node pool is created.So update the default node-pool or create a new new pool.

• Click on default node-pool & update it as per requirements.Click on Update.

• Click on Next Authentication.
• On the Authentication page,create a new cluster identity by either:Leaving the Authentication field with System-assigned managed identity, or selecting Service Principal.
• If select Service principal,then provide the Service principal client ID and secret.
• Enable the Kubernetes role-based access control (Kubernetes RBAC) option & leave the other options.
• Click on Next Networking.

• On Networking page,we have 2 option to create network configuration by either:kubenet or Azure CNI.
• If choosing kubenet,it creates a new VNet for your cluster using default values.

• If choosing Azure CNI,create or select a existing Vnet for ypur cluster.
• Leave the other options.Click on Next Integrations.

• Create or select existing container registry.Click on create new container registry.
• Provide the Registry name,resource group,region & SKU.Click Ok.
• By default container monitoring & Azure policy are disabled.
• Click on Next Tags.

• Provide the Key name & value.Click on Next Review+create.

• Once validation passed successfully click on create option.

• Now go to Kubernetes services Home page.