Creating an AKS Automatic cluster with your OWN custom VNET in Bicep

Creating an AKS Automatic cluster with your OWN custom VNET in Bicep

In this article, I’m going to show you how to deploy an AKS Automatic Cluster within your own custom virtual network using Bicep. An Azure Subscription A code editor - I’m using Visual Studio Code! The AZ CLI kubectl A bash shell (VS Code has an integrated terminal, Windows terminal is also pretty neat) If you don’t know what AKS Automatic is, we’ll cover that before we start. We’ll then work through the Bicep code that we need to provision a cluster with our own virtual network. ...

February 20, 2025 · 11 min · Will Velida
Creating an Azure Kubernetes Service lab environment with Bicep

Creating an Azure Kubernetes Service lab environment with Bicep

In this article, I’m going to show you how to build an Azure Kubernetes Service lab environment with Bicep. This sample was inspired by this AKS Lab provided by the AKS team! [!NOTE] If you want to see a live demo of this instead, check it out on my YouTube channel! We’re going to build the lab environment step by step using Bicep. Wherever possible, we will avoid creating resources using the AZ CLI, and instead take an opinionated approach to defining our infrastructure declaratively with Bicep instead. We will still need to use the AZ CLI to do some tasks, such as deploying our resources. ...

February 13, 2025 · 14 min · Will Velida