Azure

Azure Credential Requirements

Subscription ID

Your Azure subscription identifier can be found in your subscription details.

Tenant ID

Located in the Azure Dashboard, which provides access to all required credentials.

To locate your Tenant ID:

Client ID (Application ID)

Represents the identifier of your registered application.

Steps to create:

1. Navigate to App Registrations

2. Register a new application

3. Obtain the Client ID

Client Secret

Authentication key for your registered application.

Steps to generate:

1. Access secret creation

2. Configure secret settings

3. Save the generated secret

Role Assignment

Configure application permissions:

1. Navigate to Subscriptions > Access Control (IAM)
2. Select “Role Assignment”
3. Click “Add > Add Role Assignment”
4. Create new role and specify the application name
5. Configure desired permissions

Authentication Methods

Environment Variables

export AZURE_TENANT_ID=""
export AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=""
export AZURE_CLIENT_ID=""
export AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=""

Command Line Interface

ksctl cred

Available Cluster Types

High Availability (HA) Clusters

Self-managed clusters with the following components:

• Distributed etcd database instances
• HAProxy load balancer for control plane high availability
• Multiple control plane nodes
• Worker nodes

Bootstrap options:

• k3s (lightweight Kubernetes distribution)
• kubeadm (official Kubernetes bootstrap tool)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Fully managed Kubernetes service by Azure.

Cluster Management Features

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