As with most applications these days, much of the hard work has already been done by the open source community (including those who work for Microsoft). Microsoft has realized that many users would like to use their managed services from Kubernetes, and that they require an easier way of using the same methodologies that are used for Kubernetes deployment. To aid in this effort, they have released Helm charts that use these managed services as a backend (https://github.com/Azure/helm-charts). We will be using https://github.com/Azure/helm-charts/tree/master/wordpress as a sample application.

First, we will need to install the prerequisites that are described in the following section.