AKS Concepts

External

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-clusters-workloads

Internal

• AKS
• Kubernetes Concepts

Node

Nodes are Azure virtual machines.

Node Pool

Nodes of the same configuration are grouped together into node pools.

Access and Identity

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-identity

Security

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-security

Authentication

Cluster Infrastructure Authentication

The cluster infrastructure authentication is used by AKS to manage cloud resources attached to the cluster. It can be service principal or system-assigned managed identity.

Service Principal

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-service-principal

System-Assigned Managed Identity

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-managed-identity

Networking

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-network

Ingress Controller

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/ingress-controller-overview

Storage

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-storage

Scaling

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-scale