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Terraform a Simple AKS Cluster

Based on the following Terraform example.

Assumes:

• resource group already exists
• service account has been created with appropriate role and permissions to create an AKS cluster
• an SSH private/public key-pair using RSA algorithm has been created

Copy sample configuration

cp terraform.tfvars.sample terraform.tfvars

Edit terraform.tfvars

Amend the values for

• aks_resource_group
• enable_logs
• ssh_public_key
• az_subscription_id
• az_client_id
• az_client_secret
• az_tenant_id
• aks_region
• aks_name
• aks_nodes
• aks_node_type
• aks_pool_name
• aks_node_disk_size

You're also free to update any other input variable value

Create the cluster

./create-cluster.sh

List available clusters

./list-clusters.sh

Update kubeconfig

Use the name and location of the cluster you just created to update kubeconfig and set the current context for kubectl

./set-kubectl-context.sh <aks-cluster-name> <azure-resource-group>

Resizing a cluster

See Scale cluster nodes

Validate you have some pods running

kubectl get pods -A

Teardown the cluster

./destroy-cluster.sh