AKS Platform Engineering Workshop
Master the architecture, operations, and reliability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at scale. This intensive 2-day workshop takes you from cluster design to production patterns used by enterprises. You will deploy multi-region AKS clusters, implement advanced networking, set up monitoring and autoscaling, design disaster recovery, and establish platform reliability practices.
RI
Rajesh Iyer
Kubernetes Platform Lead, Microsoft Azure
What You Will Learn
Design high-availability AKS clusters with proper networking, storage, and security
Implement advanced networking: CNI plugins, Istio, network policies, and traffic management
Set up comprehensive monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor for Containers
Configure autoscaling: HPA, VPA, and cluster autoscaling for cost optimization
Design multi-region deployments and disaster recovery strategies
Establish platform reliability practices: SLOs, incident response, and performance tuning
Curriculum
1
Day 1 - Morning: AKS Architecture Fundamentals
4 hours
•Cluster architecture: control plane, nodes, networking
•Zones, availability sets, and high availability patterns
•Node pools and workload isolation
•Storage: persistent volumes, storage classes, and managed disks
•Live lab: deploy a multi-zone AKS cluster
2
Day 1 - Afternoon: Advanced Networking & Security
4 hours
3
Day 2 - Morning: Monitoring, Logging, and Autoscaling
4 hours
4
Day 2 - Afternoon: Production Reliability & Disaster Recovery
4 hours
About the Instructor
RI
Rajesh Iyer
Kubernetes Platform Lead, Microsoft Azure
9+ years building and operating Kubernetes platforms at Microsoft and scale-up companies. AKS expert and CNCF contributor.
Prerequisites
Basic Kubernetes knowledge (pods, services, deployments)
Familiarity with Azure or another public cloud
Understanding of networking basics (IP, DNS, routing)
Linux command-line experience
Who Is This For
Platform engineers building internal Kubernetes platforms
DevOps engineers operating AKS in production
Solutions architects designing cloud infrastructure on Azure
Teams migrating workloads from on-premises to AKS
What Is Included
16 hours of live Zoom instruction (2 full days)
Lab environments with pre-configured AKS clusters
Complete Terraform IaC for cluster setup
Monitoring and networking configuration templates
60-day access to session recordings
Digital certificate of completion and platform badge
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