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Deploy Applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

In this lab, you will be using an existing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) managed cluster. You will learn how to easily create a containerized application, push it to a container registry attached to the AKS cluster, and deploy the application to the cluster. For this lab, you should have a basic understanding of Containers and Kubernetes.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create Your Application

    1. Clone the working files from the following Github repository: https://github.com/pluralsight-cloud/aks-deploy-applications-lab.git

  2. Challenge

    Build and Push your Container Image to Azure Container Registry

    1. Build the application using the Dockerfile in the cloned repository.

    2. Push the container image to the provided Azure Container Registry, using the name myapp and the tag latest

      Tip: You can save the name of the container registry to a variable named ACR using the following command:

      ACR=$(az acr list --query [].name --output tsv)

  3. Challenge

    Deploy Your Application to the Cluster

    1. Update the placeholder values in the myapp-deployment.yaml deployment manifest with the unique name of your Azure Container Registry.

    2. Deploy your application using the provided Kubernetes deployment manifest named: myapp-deployment.yaml

    3. Deploy a service to expose your application using the proivided Kubernetes service manifest named: myapp-service.yaml

      Tip: You can save the name of your resource group and AKS cluster variables named RG and AKS respectively using the following command:

      RG=$(az group list --query [].name --output tsv)
AKS=$(az aks list --query [].name --output tsv)

  4. Challenge

    Test Your Application

    1. Test your application by accessing it using HTTP using the IP address of the Kubernetes service.
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