Azure Kubernetes Services with Microservices: Understanding Its Patterns and Architecture

Chapter 1: A Quick Handshake With Microservices & AKS

Chapter Goal: This Chapter will present an overview of Microservices and AKS. This will detail down the What, Why, When for using this Architecture and Service. How they are related to each other and merits on coupling these two entities.

No of pages 30 -40

Sub -Topics

1. Introduction to Microservices

2. Monolith vs Microservices

3. Introduction to Cloud Native

4. How does Business benefit from Cloud Native Applications.

5. Introduction to AKS and its components

Chapter 2: Architecture & Designing Consideration

Chapter Goal: This chapter will involve points to be considered while Architectural & designing Microservices with AKS based applications. Must consideration checklist, and points to be remembered while brainstorming on making designing decisions.

No of pages: 30 - 40

Sub - Topics

1. Introduction to Microservices design patterns

2. Design patterns to implement Microservices on AKS

3. What are Containers

4. Kubernetes as a container orchestration platform

5. Sample application to drive the design best practices of Microservices and AKS

Chapter 3: Dealing with common failures

Chapter Goal: This Chapter will help in detailing common errors faced in AKS based applications and ways to handle the same. This will cover the error handling tips & tricks.

No of pages: 30 - 40

Sub - Topics:

1. Failure scenarios and how to handle them e.g. Handling node failures

2. Common failures and building resiliency in Microservices using AKS and other Azure Services.

3. high availability and deployment scenarios to ensure always available microservices using Azure services.

4. How to design for business continuity and disaster recovery
Chapter 4: Securing your AKS Workloads

Chapter Goal: This Chapter deals with setting up and configuring AKS workloads with Security aspects. Steps to keep the AKS application secure.

No of pages: 30 - 40

Sub - Topics:

1. Security best practices for microservices and how to leverage AKS

2. Role based access control in AKS and how to design .

3. Azure Active Directory pod- managed identities

3. Leverage of Azure Key Vaults and Network Security in AKS

4. Azure Security Center leverage for AKS

Chapter 5: Monitoring AKS based Application

Chapter Goal: This Chapter will detail all required commands used for debugging and Monitoring ASK based applications. Configuring Metrics and Diagnostics for AKS.

No of pages: 30 - 40

Sub - Topics:

1. Monitoring AKS cluster and microservices

2. Ready and Alive probes and how to implement them

3. Health and Diagnostics Metric for the Microservices and AKS

4. Pod Consumption metrics and thresholds management

Chapter 6: CI/CD for AKS

Chapter Goal: This chapter will present with Setup process for CI/CD, like building Build, release pipelines for AKS deployment using Azure and GitHub.

No of pages: 30 - 40

Sub - Topics:

1. Azure DevOps setup Microservices deployment