Install AKS-Preview extension via Azure Cloudshell
NOTE ! This is a Preview blogpost, do not use in production! (only for test environments)
To create an AKS cluster that can use multiple node pools and run Windows Server containers, first enable the WindowsPreview feature flags on your subscription. The WindowsPreview feature also uses multi-node pool clusters and virtual machine scale set to manage the deployment and configuration of the Kubernetes nodes. Register the WindowsPreview feature flag using the az feature register command as shown in the following example:
I Have registered the following Preview Features from the Azure CloudShell :
- az feature register –name WindowsPreview –namespace Microsoft.ContainerService
- az feature register –name MultiAgentpoolPreview –namespace Microsoft.ContainerService
- az feature register –name VMSSPreview –namespace Microsoft.ContainerService
This will take a few minutes and you can check the registration with the following command :
az feature list -o table –query “[?contains(name, ‘Microsoft.ContainerService/WindowsPreview’)].{Name:name,State:properties.state}”
When ready, refresh the registration of the Microsoft.ContainerService resource provider using the az provider register command:
Creating Azure Kubernetes Cluster
First you create a Resource Group in the right Azure Region for your AKS Cluster to run:
az group create –name myResourceGroup –location eastus
I created Resource Group KubeCon in location West-Europe.
Creating KubeCluster
With the following CLI command in Azure Cloudshell, I created the Kubernetes Cluster with a single node:
$PASSWORD_WIN=”P@ssw0rd1234″
az aks create –resource-group KubeCon –name KubeCluster –node-count 1 –enable-addons monitoring –kubernetes-version 1.14.0 –generate-ssh-keys –windows-admin-password $PASSWORD_WIN –windows-admin-username azureuser –enable-vmss –network-plugin azure
The Azure Kubernetes Cluster “KubeCluster” is created in the resource group “KubeCon” in a view minutes.
Adding a Windows Pool
Adding a Windows Server Node Pool
By default, an AKS cluster is created with a node pool that can run Linux containers. Use az aks nodepool add command to add an additional node pool that can run Windows Server containers.
az aks nodepool add –resource-group KubeCon –cluster-name KubeCluster –os-type Windows –name pool02 –node-count 1 –kubernetes-version 1.14.0
I added the Windows Server Pool via the Azure Portal.
When this has finished, we have an Azure Kubernetes Cluster with Multi node Pools for Linux and Windows Server Containers :
Pools for Linux and Windows Server Containers
The following will be created in Microsoft Azure too :
VNET, NSG and Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS)
Azure Monitor for containers is a feature designed to monitor the performance of container workloads deployed to either Azure Container Instances or managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Monitoring your containers is critical, especially when you’re running a production cluster, at scale, with multiple applications.
Azure Monitor for containers gives you performance visibility by collecting memory and processor metrics from controllers, nodes, and containers that are available in Kubernetes through the Metrics API. Container logs are also collected. After you enable monitoring from Kubernetes clusters, these metrics and logs are automatically collected for you through a containerized version of the Log Analytics agent for Linux and stored in your Log Analytics workspace.
Container Insights Monitoring of the Linux Node
Container Insights Monitoring of the Windows Server Node
Here you can read all about Azure Monitoring with Container Insights
Scaling Multi Pool Node AKS Cluster
To Scale your Multi Pool Node AKS Cluster, you need to do this via the Azure Cloudshell CLI.
Here you see the two pools ( Linux and Windows Server)
Scaling up the Windows Server Pool
You can do this with the following command :
az aks nodepool scale –resource-group KubeCon –cluster-name KubeCluster –name pool02 –node-count 2 –no-wait
Scaling
Scaling Succesful after a few minutes
Upgrading Windows Server Pool Instance
When I scaled the Cluster there was a update released by Microsoft.
Windows Server Pool Instances
Just Click on Upgrade
Upgrade is Done 😉
