Create an Azure Container Service Kubernetes Cluster with Azure CLI

create-acs-kubernetes.md

Create an Azure Container Service Kubernetes Cluster with Azure CLI

Login (interactive) to your Azure subscription using Azure CLI

az login

Create a resource group

az group create --name acs-k8s-rg --location westeurope

Optional - Create a new SSH key with keygen (interactive)

ssh-keygen

Create a Kubernetes cluster using Azure Container Service

az acs create --name acs-k8s --location westeurope --resource-group acs-k8s-rg --ssh-key-value ~/roaming/ssh/acs_k8s_rsa.pub --agent-count 2 --orchestrator-type kuberne
tes

Download kubectl

az acs kubernetes install-cli --install-location ~/bin/kubectl

Download the Kubernetes cluster configuration

az acs kubernetes get-credentials --name acs-k8s --resource-group acs-k8s-rg --ssh-key-file ~/roaming/ssh/acs_k8s_rsa

Download and install Helm

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.5.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf helm-v2.5.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv linux-amd64/helm ~/bin/helm
rm -rf linux-amd64 helm-v2.5.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Initialize Helm

helm init

Install kube-lego

helm install stable/kube-lego --set config.LEGO_EMAIL=<valid-email>,config.LEGO_URL=https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

Install nginx-ingress

helm install stable/nginx-ingress

Configure DNS provider

*.acs-k8s.your-domain.com