{"id":52092,"date":"2022-06-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:08:35","slug":"getting-started-with-azure-kubernetes-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/technetuk\/2022\/06\/09\/getting-started-with-azure-kubernetes-service\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance, and since Kubernetes masters are managed by Azure, you only manage and maintain the agent nodes. Thus, AKS is free; you only pay for the agent nodes within your clusters, not for the masters.<\/p>\n

You can create an AKS cluster using:<\/p>\n