Day Two Cloud 016: Checking Up On Azure Kubernetes Service

In June 2018, Microsoft went GA with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). As it sounds, AKS is a fully managed Azure service using Kubernetes as the orchestration layer for container-based applications.

Given all the hype around Kubernetes and cloud applications, I wanted to get a reality check on the service, which is just over one year old now.

My guest is Justin Luk, the Azure Kubernetes Service with Programmer Manager at Microsoft.

We discuss:

Why Azure launched a Kubernetes service when it already had multiple ways to deploy containers
Technical limitations that Microsoft wanted to avoid
The business drivers for the service
Customer adoption one year in
How Microsoft deals with the constant updates to Kubernetes while supporting older versions
The problems and challenges of running a service at scale