Updated Jan 2019: Azure Container Service (ACS) has been replaced by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Please refer to this guide on how to easily create an AKS cluster.

Table of Contents

• 1. Create Application ID
• 2. Deploy Azure Container Service
• 3. Connect to the Master
• References

1. Create Application ID

1) Go to Azure Active Directory → App registrations and click New application registration

2) Name your app and URL then click Create

3) Note the Application ID and click Settings

4) Go to Keys. Fill in key description and expires then click Save

5) Note the secret key generated

6) Go to your Subscription → Access control (IAM) and click Add

7) Add your new app with role at least Contributor

2. Deploy Azure Container Service

1) Go to Marketplace and search for ACS. Select and click Create.

2) Name your service and resource group

3) Select Kubernetes as the orchestrator. Complete other fields and fill Application ID in Service principal client ID and Secret key in client secret.

4) Select agent size. (This size is only for agents but not the master so you may need to resize the master after deploy)

5) On the summary page, click Deploy. This may take ~15–20 minutes.

6) After the deployment is done, here are the resources you get:

3. Connect to the Master

1) Select the master VM and click Connect to see SSH command.

2) Once connected, try to see the kubectl’s version using kubectl version

$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"7", GitVersion:"v1.7.7", GitCommit:"8e1552342355496b62754e61ad5f802a0f3f1fa7", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2017-09-28T23:56:03Z", GoVersion:"go1.8.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"7", GitVersion:"v1.7.7", GitCommit:"8e1552342355496b62754e61ad5f802a0f3f1fa7", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2017-09-28T23:56:03Z", GoVersion:"go1.8.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

References