What you'll learn

Teams frequently stand up production AKS clusters with no defensible baseline: guessing at node pools, identity, networking, and upgrades until something breaks under the load.

In this course, Plan AKS for Production Workloads, you'll gain the ability to plan a production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster baseline for a real workload.

First, you'll explore where AKS fits among Azure's container options and confirm it's the right compute choice for the workload in front of you.

Next, you'll discover how to design the cluster's foundation, topology and node pools, capacity and availability zones, administrative access, and workload identity.

Finally, you'll learn how to plan network placement, the health signals that prove the cluster is working, and an upgrade, maintenance, and recovery posture that protects availability over time.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of AKS production planning needed to design and defend a responsible cluster baseline for your workloads.