>> Hello there, and thank you very much for joining us
today in this new Azure Portal How To Video. Today we’ll
learn how to get started with Azure Arc enabled
Kubernetes in the Azure Portal. And for that, we have
Abhave Sharma, who’s going to show us how to do that.
So, thank you very much, Abhave, for joining us and
without further ado, let’s jump to the demo.
>> Thanks a lot for the
introduction, Leon. Let me start by
providing some context for our viewers at home. Azure Arc
enable Kubernetes lets you connect to Azure those
Kubernetes clusters which are running outside of Azure.
So, these clusters could be running on-premises, on the
edge, or on other clouds, and you can use Azure Arc
enable Kubernetes to connect to Azure and then use the
powerful Azure management tools like Azure Monitor,
Azure Policy, GitOps configuration, so on to manage
these clusters.
Now let’s dive into the demo.
As I search for Kubernetes, the Kubernetes Azure Arc
result surfaced. Clicking on which will open the browse
view for all the on-prem Kubernetes clusters which have
already registered with Azure Arc. Now to register a new
cluster, I click on this button, which will open the cluster
registration blade. The first app here mentions a bunch of
prerequisites, which I need to make sure I square off
before I proceed.
Now to register a cluster, I need to first create its
representation on Azure and then install the Azure Arc
agent on this on-prem cluster. This cluster name will be
used for identifying this
on-prem cluster. This name can be
any name and does not have to be the same as the actual
cluster name.
Next I’ll choose where in Azure I want this to be located.
At this point, I only need to provide additional information
if my cluster is behind an outbound proxy server. If not, I
can just move ahead.
A point to note is one of the cool things here is that I can
optionally use this physical location tags to represent
where this cluster lives outside of Azure. For this I’m going
to specify Boston Data Center as the location of my
cluster. At this point our
script is ready. I can download it
and run it on my on-prem cluster, which will install the
Azure Arc agent and register the cluster with Azure.
Note that this step needs to be performed outside of the
portal. But the cool thing is that I can verify on the portal
itself whether the agent has been successfully installed or
not because as soon as the cluster is registered, this
button will be enabled and I will be able to click on this
button to view and manage my cluster.
Now let’s go back to the list of clusters that I had already
shown before and select one
of the clusters to read the details.
Let’s go and look at this Wide-World-Warehouse cluster
and see what are the different Azure management
capabilities available here.
So in this clusters view, I can see that the cluster is
already connected to Azure and I can also see other
essential details like the Kubernetes distribution,
infrastructure, Kubernetes version, etc. Now let’s see,
I can use this left side resource menu to discover the
various capabilities that Azure has to offer to manage this
cluster. For example, if I go to the Insights tab, I can set
up monitoring of my cluster using Azure Monitor for
containers. Or I can go to the GitOps tab and set up the
GitOps capability which will help me deploy the applications
and configuration to my cluster. I can even go to this
policies tabu using which I will be able to use Azure
Policies for my Kubernetes. Or I can go to the security tab
and check if there are any security recommendations for
my cluster.
I hope you enjoyed this demo and are ready to start your
journey with Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes.
>> Thank you very much, Abhave, this was great.
And thanks, every one of
you, for watching. Please try this
out, let us know what you think. Leave us a comment in
the comment section, follow us on Twitter, and look
forward to seeing you in the next video. Thanks for
watching and bye for now.