Azure Kubernetes Services with Microservices: Understanding Its Patterns and Architecture

Design and implement scalable microservices using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and other Azure Services. This book will help you understand why and when to choose microservices as a solution for modernization and how to use Azure DevOps to implement CI/CD for deploying microservices.

The book starts with an introduction to the evolution to microservices and AKS along with its components. You will learn design patterns to implement microservices on AKS and understand Kubernetes as a container orchestration platform. You will go through the common errors faced in AKS-based applications and ways to handle them. You will learn error handling tips and tricks and how to design for business continuity and disaster recovery. The book discusses things you should know related to security and monitoring when working with AKS-based applications. The book presents a practical approach to set up processes for CI/CD, such as building Build and release pipelines for AKS deployment using Azure DevOps.

After reading this book, you will understand design considerations for designing scalable microservices and know how to implement the design through AKS.

You will:

• Know design patterns for microservices and how to handle failure scenarios
• Be aware of architecture and design considerations
• Understand container and Kubernetes architecture components
• Understand security and monitoring aspects
• Take a practical approach to continuous integration and continuous delivery

About the Author

Kasam Shaikh is an Azure AI enthusiast, published author, global speaker, community MVP, and Microsoft Docs Contributor. He has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry and is a regular speaker at various meetups, online communities, and international conferences on Azure and AI. He is currently working as Senior Cloud Architect for a multi-national firm where he leads multiple programs in the Practice for Microsoft Cloud Platform and Low Code. He is also a founder of the community named DearAzure-Azure INDIA (az-India) and leads the community for learning Microsoft Azure. He owns a YouTube channel and website and shares his experience over his website https://www.kasamshaikh.com

Shailesh Agaskar has 20+ years of experience in information technology. For the last 20 years, he has been working on Microsoft technologies such as Win32 SDK using C, C++, Office 365, Azure Data Engineering & Analytics powered by Azure Cloud Platform. He has been advising customers across the globe and helping them leverage best fit technologies to drive their enterprise digital transformation journey. Microsoft Platforms & Technologies is one of the options which has been heavily leveraged by his customers. He is currently working as Chief Architect for a multi-national firm where he heads the Practice for Microsoft Cloud Platform, M365, and other technologies.