Comprehensive Guide To Create an Azure Kubernetes Service with Az CLI

Objective: To provide key configuration parameters for the beginner when creating the Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure CLI.

My design with related az aks create command configuration parameters.

You can find the az aks create command’s documentation provides a list of about 60 parameters.

az aks create --name
              --resource-group
              [--aad-admin-group-object-ids]
              [--aad-client-app-id]
              [--aad-server-app-id]
              [--aad-server-app-secret]
              [--aad-tenant-id]
              [--admin-username]
              [--api-server-authorized-ip-ranges]
              [--attach-acr]
              [--ca-profile]
              [--client-secret]
              [--disable-rbac]
              [--dns-name-prefix]
              [--dns-service-ip]
              [--docker-bridge-address]
              [--enable-aad]
              [--enable-addons]
              [--enable-cluster-autoscaler]
              [--enable-managed-identity]
              [--enable-node-public-ip]
              [--enable-private-cluster]
              [--enable-rbac]
              [--generate-ssh-keys]
              [--kubernetes-version]
              [--load-balancer-idle-timeout]
              [--load-balancer-managed-outbound-ip-count]
              [--load-balancer-outbound-ip-prefixes]
              [--load-balancer-outbound-ips]
              [--load-balancer-outbound-ports]
              [--load-balancer-sku]
              [--location]
              [--max-count]
              [--max-pods]
              [--min-count]
              [--network-plugin {azure, kubenet}]
              [--network-policy]
              [--no-ssh-key]
              [--no-wait]
              [--node-count]
              [--node-osdisk-diskencryptionset-id]
              [--node-osdisk-size]
              [--node-vm-size]
              [--nodepool-labels]
              [--nodepool-name]
              [--nodepool-tags]
              [--outbound-type {loadBalancer, userDefinedRouting}]
              [--pod-cidr]
              [--service-cidr]
              [--service-principal]
              [--skip-subnet-role-assignment]
              [--ssh-key-value]
              [--subscription]
              [--tags]
              [--uptime-sla]
              [--vm-set-type]
              [--vnet-subnet-id]
              [--windows-admin-password]
              [--windows-admin-username]
              [--workspace-resource-id]
              [--zones {1, 2, 3}]

I will explain in detail 16 of my recommended parameters and its values for starting out a development environment with the intent of leaning towards a production design. Hope this can help kick start your…