The goal of this project is to quickly deploy, run, and connect to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. The prerequisites for getting this working are:

• Docker
• A service principal with contributor access to a subscription.

Note: This project is intended for development purposes only and should not be used in production.

Using BASH:

Set the value for the required environment variables:

#!/bin/bash

export AZURE_CLIENT_ID=""
export AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=""
export AZURE_TENANT_ID=""
export AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=""
export LOCATION=""
export CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP=""
export CLUSTER_NAME=""

docker run -it --rm \
    -e AZURE_CLIENT_ID \
    -e AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET \
    -e AZURE_TENANT_ID \
    -e AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID \
    -e LOCATION \
    -e CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP \
    -e CLUSTER_NAME \
    --network host \
    -p 9001:9001 \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    oysteinje/aks-container:0.0.1-dev \
    create

Using PowerShell:

$env:AZURE_CLIENT_ID = ""
$env:AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET = ""
$env:AZURE_TENANT_ID = ""
$env:AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID = ""
$env:LOCATION = ""
$env:CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP = ""
$env:CLUSTER_NAME = ""

docker run -it --rm `
    -e AZURE_CLIENT_ID `
    -e AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET `
    -e AZURE_TENANT_ID `
    -e AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID `
    -e LOCATION `
    -e CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP `
    -e CLUSTER_NAME `
    --network host `
    -p 9001:9001 `
    -p 8080:8080 `
    oystenje/aks-container:0.0.1-dev `
    create

After the cluster is created you can connect to the cluster by replacing create with connect. You should now be able to run kubectl, flux, and helm commands against the cluster.

You can access the GitOps UI by running browse and navigate to http://localhost:9001. Username admin, password flux.

When you are done you can run the same command again, but now replace create with destroy.

For local development you must in addition set the following as environment variables:

export IMAGE_NAME="aks-container"
export IMAGE_TAG="0.0.1-dev"

Then you can run: ./buildAndRun create

This will build and run the image locally instead of pulling it from Docker hub.

• Kubernetes Operator that will self destruct the resource group after 24h https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cse/2021/11/11/azure-service-operators-a-kubernetes-native-way-of-deploying-azure-resources/