az aks

In the Ultra Transcenders books

AZ-104

Each book explains az aks in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Azure CLI

  Command-line tool for managing Azure that runs on any platform; examples include az login, az storage queue and az policy state trigger-scan.

• AKS

  Short for Azure Kubernetes Service, a managed Kubernetes offering that gives full control of clusters and node pools. Scaling uses the cluster autoscaler and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler; user sign-in is not built in.

• kubectl

  Command-line tool for working with workloads in a Kubernetes cluster, installed by running az aks install-cli. Cluster-level AKS settings like the cluster autoscaler are set through Azure instead.

• CRUD

  Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.

• Autoscaling

  A classic compute option where you give a minimum and maximum worker count and Azure Databricks adjusts the number of workers within that range to match the load.

Related terms

• --attach-acr

  Option on az aks create or az aks update that links a container registry to an AKS cluster by assigning AcrPull to the kubelet identity, so nodes can pull its images.

• AKS-ACR integration

  Running az aks create or az aks update with --attach-acr grants AcrPull to a cluster's kubelet managed identity, letting nodes fetch images with no pull secrets. Registries using ABAC can't use this; grant Container Registry Repository Reader manually there.

• kubelogin

  Plug-in that supplies credentials to kubectl by performing the Microsoft Entra sign-in for AKS. Running az aks install-cli installs it.