Deploy Apps to an AKS Cluster

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intermediate Terraform • basic Microsoft Azure • basic networking • basic Kubernetes • basic Helm • basic Microsoft Azure DevOps
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build and deploy an application on AKS with Helm, Docker, Terraform, and Microsoft Azure DevOps • compose Helm charts • best practices for writing abstractions in Helm charts to avoid duplicate code • publish Helm charts

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The application development teams at EC-O, an e-commerce organization that sells products for outdoor enthusiasts, want to institute a well-defined solution for publishing and deploying their containerized applications (packaged using Helm) to AKS clusters. Their goals are to orchestrate the process of testing and publishing Helm charts to a centralized, private repository and to automate application updates from their Helm charts, from development to staging to production. As E-CO’s DevOps engineer, you’ll use the Azure Container Registry to store the Helm charts and Azure DevOps pipelines to orchestrate the publishing of new versions of a chart and deploy the update to multiple environments. Using Terraform, you’ll set up the AKS cluster, Azure Container Registry, and Azure DevOps pipelines. By the end, you’ll have helped E-CO’s teams achieve their goals—and positioned yourself one step closer to a promotion!

This project is a part of the series Manage Azure Kubernetes Service with Terraform.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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This liveProject is for IT operations professionals and DevOps engineers who would like to automate the deployment and management of Azure-based infrastructure using Terraform. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:

TOOLS
  • Terraform v1.0+
  • Azure CLI v2.22+
  • kubectl v1.22+
  • Helm v3.7.1+
  • An IDE with Terraform and Go plug-ins
  • Microsoft Azure subscription
  • Microsoft Azure Active Directory
  • GitHub Account
TECHNIQUES:
  • Logical reasoning and design
  • Terraform (intermediate)
  • Microsoft Azure (basic)
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps (basic)
  • Kubernetes (basic)
  • YAML (basic)

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