Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI enables developers and administrators to deploy and manage containerized apps on Azure Stack HCI. With AKS on Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft is delivering an Industry leading experience for modern application development and deployment in a hybrid cloud era. This takes our popular Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and makes it available to customers to run on-premises: delivering Azure consistency, a familiar Azure experience, ease of use and high security for their containerized applications.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a critical foundational component of Azure Stack HCI providing our customers the ability to dynamically create, secure, and connect their networks to meet the evolving needs of their applications. Like in Azure, customers can deploy their apps on completely virtualized networks, and attach network services like microsegmentation, load balancing, quality of service policies, connect to external networks, etc. all in software, without requiring any changes on the physical network.
Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of SDN integration with AKS on Azure Stack HCI. Customers can now bring in their own networks and attach the AKS-HCI nodes to these networks. Additionally, customers can use the SDN Software Load Balancers to provide load balancer services for their containerized applications.
SDN delivers on the key promises of AKS HCI. Let’s take a look.
To try out this functionality, you will need to do the following:
Detailed installation instructions and Powershell module files are available for download here.
Next, you can create workload clusters and deploy your applications. All AKS-HCI VM NICs will seamlessly get attached to the SDN virtual network that was provided during installation. The SDN Software Load Balancer will also be used as the external load balancer for all Kubernetes services, as well as act as the load balancer for the API server on Kubernetes control-plane(s).
We can’t wait for you to get started with SDN and AKS-HCI on your Azure Stack HCI clusters. For any issues, reach out to aks-hci-sdn@microsoft.com. We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions on this form.
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