Deploy the Socks Shop microservice application on Kubernetes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), emphasizing readability, maintainability, and DevOps practices.

1. IaaS Provider: AWS
2. Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform
3. Configuration Management: Ansible
4. Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS on azure)
5. Monitoring: Prometheus
6. Certificate Management: Cert-Manager with Let's Encrypt
7. Logging: Fluentd, Elasticsearch, Kibana (or similar stack)
8. CI/CD: GitHub Actions.
9. Security: Ansible Vault, network policies, security groups

Create an Azure account and set up necessary IAM roles and policies.

AWS CLI https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html Terraform kubectl https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/ Helm https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ Ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/installation_distros.html#installing-ansible-on-ubuntu Cert-Manager Prometheus, Ansible Vault.

Define a Terraform script to provision Azure infrastructure including VPC, subnets, EKS cluster, and necessary IAM roles and security groups.

Create an Ansible playbook to install Helm, deploy Cert-Manager, Prometheus, and the Socks Shop application. Set Up HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt

Set up an Ingress resource in Kubernetes to use the certificates for HTTPS.

Deploy Prometheus to monitor the Kubernetes cluster and the Socks Shop application.

Implement a logging solution using tools like Fluentd, Elasticsearch, and Kibana to collect and visualize logs.

Implement security measures including security groups, Kubernetes Network Policies, and use Ansible Vault to encrypt sensitive information.

Set up a CI/CD pipeline with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI to automate the deployment process.