[Online] AKS-Series 2: Introduction to AKS by Thomas Hafermalz

Dear members of the Azure Zurich User Group,

We are happy to announce our next Azure Zurich virtual meetup.

Note: This meetup will be streamed directly to Youtube. Follow the online Link to join.

This meetup is the second iteration of our brand new series about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS):

07.12.2021: Introduction to Kubernetes by Jonas Felix
18.01.2022: Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by Thomas Hafermalz
15.02.2022: Migration from Azure AppService to Azure Kubernetes Service by Marc Merzinger
22.03.2022: You are already running Kubernetes-based workloads on AKS and want to get more out of it? by Nico Meisenzahl
May 2022: TBA

AGENDA

• 16:45 Meeting is open.
• 17:00 Welcome from the Azure Zurich User Group (Manu & Thomas)
• 17:05 An Introduction to AKS (Thomas Hafermalz)
• 18:30 End

Abstract:
Kubernetes (K8s) has long been established as an orchestration platform for a container-based system landscape. However, setting up and administering a cluster can be quite time-consuming. This session is an introductory overview of how Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can support these tasks and how the interaction between K8s resources and Azure resources works. I will show where AKS can simplify cluster management, such as scaling or upgrading and how the K8s resources are mapped to Azure resources for storage mounting or load balancing. AKS is not another K8s (or container orchestrations system), its based on K8s and helps to combine the worlds of Azure and K8s - running in the Azure Cloud.

About Thomas:
Thomas works as an Azure Solution Architect and Trainer at Trivadis AG in Zurich. Coming from application development with .NET & Angular, his focus is now on cloud-native development and architecture for Azure. Other areas he is interested in are serverless apps, monitoring, IaC and container workloads. He regularly speaks in user groups or at conferences and is an author for tech magazines.

You can find him at:
https://linkedin.com/in/thomashafermalz
https://thomashafermalz.net/

The event is free of charge, virtual-only, open to anybody interested and held in English.