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Azure Kubernetes Service Architecture - Couverture souple

Nexley, Devlin

 
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Synopsis

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has evolved into a foundational platform for running distributed applications, microservices, data services, and cloud-native infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Operating AKS effectively at enterprise scale, however, requires considerably more than understanding Kubernetes resources or deploying containers. This book presents an architecture-focused examination of AKS as an enterprise distributed systems platform. It explores how the managed Kubernetes control plane interacts with Azure infrastructure, how workloads are placed and isolated across node pools, and how networking, identity, security, observability, scaling, and operational governance shape production deployments. Rather than providing a step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial, the book concentrates on the engineering decisions that determine whether an AKS environment remains reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally manageable as workloads and organizational requirements grow. Topics covered include: ¿ AKS control plane and data plane architecture and their operational boundaries ¿ Azure compute, node pool, availability zone, and capacity design ¿ Kubernetes networking, VNet integration, ingress, service communication, and traffic architecture ¿ Microsoft Entra integration, workload identity, RBAC, and cloud resource access ¿ Workload placement, scheduling, isolation, and resource management ¿ Persistent storage and stateful workload architecture on AKS ¿ Observability architectures spanning metrics, logs, traces, monitoring, and SLOs ¿ Release engineering, GitOps, progressive delivery, rollback, and deployment reliability ¿ Horizontal and cluster-level scaling strategies for variable and high-demand workloads ¿ Kubernetes security controls, admission policies, network segmentation, and software supply-chain protection ¿ Resilience engineering, failure domains, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures ¿ Multi-cluster topology, fleet management, internal developer platforms, policy-as-code, and enterprise governance ¿ Cost attribution, showback, chargeback, capacity utilization, and infrastructure economics The book also examines the architectural trade-offs that emerge when AKS moves from an individual application platform to an organizational infrastructure layer. Multi-cluster operations, platform engineering, policy enforcement, workload isolation, and cost accountability are treated as interconnected concerns rather than isolated administrative tasks. Designed for cloud architects, platform engineers, Kubernetes engineers, DevOps and SRE practitioners, infrastructure engineers, security engineers, and technical leaders, this book provides an engineering-oriented foundation for designing and operating production AKS environments where reliability, security, scalability, governance, and operational efficiency must coexist.

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