Just like AWS and GCP, Microsoft Azure's public cloud also has a hosted offering, which is Kubernetes. The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was introduced in 2017. Users of Azure can manage, deploy, and scale their containerized applications on AKS without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

In this chapter, we'll start by giving an introduction to Azure and then go through the major services that AKS uses. We'll then learn how to launch an AKS cluster and play with it:

• Introduction to Azure
• Fundamental services in Azure
• Setting up AKS
• Azure cloud providers