Azure Kubernetes Service
A managed Kubernetes service (AKS) for deploying and orchestrating containers at scale.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed container orchestration platform that offloads the operational burden of running Kubernetes. Microsoft provisions, scales, and upgrades the Kubernetes control plane at no additional charge; customers pay only for the agent nodes that run their workloads. AKS suits applications composed of multiple interdependent containers needing service discovery, rolling updates, auto-scaling, and self-healing. For AZ-900, contrast AKS with Azure Container Instances (ACI), the serverless option for running a single container quickly with no cluster management, while AKS targets production-grade, multi-container apps requiring orchestration. AKS integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for role-based access control and Azure Monitor for cluster observability.
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