Deploy Applications to Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters with Azure Arc

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Deploy Applications to Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters with Azure Arc

Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes enables Cloud Native GitOps deployments at-scale across hybrid and multi-cloud using Azure Policy. In this hands-on lab, you'll use the Flux-based GitOps extension for Azure Kubernetes Service and Arc-enabled Kubernetes to deploy an application across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 18, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Deploy the GitOps (Flux) Extension to All Kubernetes Clusters
1. Deploy the GitOps (Flux) Extension to all Kubernetes Clusters using Azure Policy, the built-in Policy definition named Configure installation of Flux extension on Kubernetes cluster can be used.
  
  Scope the policy assigment to the Resource Group.
  
  Use the existing managed identity named id-policyremediation for policy remediation.
Note: You can ignore the warning about permission assignments when assigning the managed identity for policy remediation. The existing managed identity has the required permissions.
Challenge

Remediate Non-compliant Resources
1. Remediate any non-compliant Policy assignments using remediation tasks.
Note: Change the Scope of the remediation tasks blade to the Resource Group to remove the Access is denied to the requested resource... when the remediation tasks list is scoped to the Subscription. You have access to the resource group in this lab, not the entire subscription.
Challenge

Deploy a Flux Configuration
1. Deploy a Flux configuration to all Kubernetes clusters in the resource group using Policy. The built-in policy named Configure Kubernetes clusters with Flux v2 configuration using public Git repository can be used to deploy the application, with the following parameters:
  
  Configuration Instance Name: guestbook
  
  Configuration Namespace: default
  
  Configuration Scope: cluster
  
  Repository Url: https://github.com/pluralsight-cloud/azure-arc-hybrid-management-implementing
  
  Repository Reference Branch: main
  
  Kustomization Name: kustomize
  
  Kustomization Path: ./kustomize-guestbook
  
  Kustomization Prune: true
Note: You can ignore the warning about permission assignments when assigning the managed identity for policy remediation. The existing managed identity has the required permissions.
Challenge

Review GitOps Configuration of Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters
1. Review GitOps configuration of hybrid Kubernetes clusters using the Azure portal.

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