Workshop #1: Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Dear community,

Welcome to the first workshop in the series of AKS related workshops!
This is an introduction level workshop targeted for those of you who have never worked with neither AKS nor Kubernetes. I expect that you have some basic understanding of containerization concept and know what docker images are.

This workshop covers the basics of using Kubernetes and you will learn how to:

• Provision basic AKS cluster and integrate it with Azure Container Registry (ACR)
• Take a simple dotnet api application, build it into a docker container, push it to ACR and use `kubectl` to deploy, configure, monitor, update and delete your application

Workshop contains a theoretical part with slides and 11 labs. The preliminary agenda can be found here https://github.com/evgenyb/aks-workshops/blob/main/01-aks-and-k8s-101/readme.md
Estimated time for completion is between 3 and 4 hours.

Here is some practical information:

• Please keep your RSVP status updated. I need to know how many of you are planning to attend.
• This is an on-line event with Microsoft Teams as a platform.
• The link to the Microsoft Teams meeting will be sent to participants one day before the event.
• This is a hands-on workshop. That means that the most of the time you will be working with labs by yourself.
• Each lab will be time-boxed. If you don't finish in time, don't worry, all labs will be available after the event, and you can work with them later.

Prerequisites:
Please spend some time before the workshop to make sure that you have installed/registered/configured all prerequisites.
Detailed information about prerequisites can be found https://github.com/evgenyb/aks-workshops/blob/main/01-aks-and-k8s-101/prerequisites.md
In short, you need:

• a laptop
• Microsoft Teams
• VS code, VS, Rider or IDE of you choice
• install .NET Core 3.1 SDK or later
• an active Azure account
• installed az cli

Looking forward to meeting you!

This workshop is rated level 100 with a target audience of developers and architects working with Azure infrastructure.