Microsoft Azure Container Service

Extended Features

• Extended Features and Examples
• Deployment via Azure CLI
• Useful Information

Extended Features and Examples

(Note, these examples currently only work in the UK Public Preview regions.)

1. Simple Clusters - Deploy a standard cluster
2. Large Clusters - Supports multiple worker pools
3. Storage via Managed Disks - Support for storing OS disks in Azure's new Managed Disk feature (see #3)
4. Storage via Storage Accounts - Support for storing OS disks in Azure's classic Storage Accounts
5. Configurable Master Size - User control over Master VM SKU/size
6. Configurable OS Disk Size - User control over Master VM OS Disk size
7. Configurable Network Ports - User control over additional network ports
8. Bring your own VNET - User control of the network the cluster is deployed into
9. Windows - Support for deploying Windows clusters

Deployment via Azure CLI

NOTE: This assumes you are using Azure CLI from a bash environment. If not, you will need to minorly modify these instructions as appropriate into cmd.exe.

You will want to edit the specified parameters file ahead of time, in order to exercise the functionality of each feature.

export CLUSTER_NAME="choose_a_name"
export LOCATION="westuk"

# edit ./azuredeploy.params.kubernetes.json as you need to
# for example, try setting `orchestratorVersion` to `1.5.7` instead of `1.6.6`.

az group create --name "${CLUSTER_NAME}" --location "${LOCATION}"
az group deployment create \
  --name "${CLUSTER_NAME}-deployment-${RANDOM}" \
  --template-file "./azuredeploy.kubernetes.json" \
  --parameters "@./azuredeploy.params.kubernetes.json"

Useful Information

• You can discover the avialable SKUs and sizes by executing az vm list-sizes.