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Section 2 - AKS Cluster

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AKS is a core service for the HMCTS platform. As part of the Platform Operations team you will need to understand:

  • How AKS is deployed/updated/maintained: Guide
  • How applications are built and deployed to AKS Guide

For this guide we will not being creating a new AKS cluster but we will deploy an application to an existing AKS cluster. Use the application build/deploy guide to carry out the necessary steps.

What did i just create?

  • An image of your application in the Azure Container registries (ACR)
  • A nodejs or java application running on the AKS cluster
  • DNS record records as described above

  • Azure frontdoor entries as described above

    Final result - Application default page Application default page

Points to note when going through the AKS steps

  • Make sure you use labs-YourGitHubUsername-nodejs when configuring both Public DNS/Private DNS for Application
  • There maybe needed some troubleshooting e.g. library versions may be deprecated or need updating.
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