Nodes in AKS that run on Azure Container Instances, so Linux pods get compute within seconds. Azure CNI networking is a prerequisite.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- Azure Container Instances
Way to run container groups without any cluster, billed per second. It offers neither autoscaling nor spreading across zones, and Azure Machine Learning treats it as a legacy v1 deployment target.
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
- Get
Key Vault permission on secrets that allows a single secret to be read; App Service Key Vault references need nothing beyond it.
- Azure CNI
Network plugin for AKS in which each pod receives an IP address from the VNet; virtual nodes depend on it.
Related terms
- Virtual Kubelet
The open-source project on which AKS virtual nodes are built.