{"id":3361,"date":"2017-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/introducing-azure-container-service-aks-managed-kubernetes-and-azure-container-registry-geo-replication"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:37:58","slug":"introducing-azure-container-service-aks-managed-kubernetes-and-azure-container-registry-geo-replication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/introducing-azure-container-service-aks-managed-kubernetes-and-azure-container-registry-geo-replication\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing AKS (managed Kubernetes) and Azure Container Registry improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we are proud to announce the preview of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/container-service\/\">AKS (Azure Container Service),&nbsp;<\/a>our new managed Kubernetes service. 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With AKS, customers get the benefit of open source Kubernetes without complexity and operational overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notice in the demo below how easy it is to provision a new AKS cluster, upgrade the cluster from Kubernetes 1.7.7 to 1.8.1, and scale the cluster from 3 to 10 nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1179\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaba8533-1c2b-41fc-807b-b6966c6b7271.gif\" alt=\"Graphical User Interface\" class=\"wp-image-11228\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To help you get started, AKS is free.<\/strong>&nbsp;You only pay for the VMs that add value to your business. Unlike other cloud providers who charge an hourly rate for the management infrastructure, with AKS you will pay nothing for the management of your Kubernetes cluster, ever. After all, the cloud should be about only paying for what you consume. View a video on why AKS is right for you and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/container-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">try AKS for free<\/a>&nbsp;today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Azure Container Service has been available since 2015 with support for multiple container orchestrators, these new features and innovative pricing are focused on Kubernetes, which has emerged as the open source standard for container orchestration. Kubernetes unique community involvement and its portability makes it an ideal orchestrator to standardize on. This comes as no surprise to Microsoft. Brendan Burns, co-creator of Kubernetes, now leads Azure\u2019s container efforts. Earlier this year Microsoft acquired Deis, a company at the center of Kubernetes innovation. More than ever, Microsoft is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/09\/29\/kubernetes_next_version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contributing upstream<\/a>&nbsp;to Kubernetes and developing innovative software like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sweetcode.io\/kubernetes-dummies-kubernetes-cluster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Draft<\/a>&nbsp;to make Kubernetes easier to use for developers.&nbsp; Given this deepening focus on Kubernetes, we will refer to our managed Kubernetes service as AKS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, here is how you can easily create a new Kubernetes cluster using the Azure CLI:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\naz aks create \u2013n myCluster \u2013g myResourceGroup\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also see continued interest in other orchestrator deployments such as Docker Enterprise and Mesosphere DC\/OS, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.docker.com\/customers\/metlife-transforms-customer-experience-legacy-and-microservices-mashup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MetLife<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/esri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESRI<\/a>.&nbsp; As a result, we will continue to support the existing ACS deployment engine in Azure for simple creation of popular open source container solutions. To address the needs of our mutual customers, we are continuing to work with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/container-service\/docker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Docker<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/container-service\/mesosphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mesosphere<\/a>&nbsp;to offer enhanced integration of their enterprise offers in our Azure Marketplace. The Azure Marketplace provides the same easy deployment as ACS, while adding easy in-place upgrades to enterprise editions, which offer value-added commercial features and 24\u00d77 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the launch of AKS, we\u2019re announcing today the general availability of&nbsp;managed SKUs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/container-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Container Registry<\/a>&nbsp;(ACR). ACR provides a private registry that scales to your needs through three new sizes. To provide scale across the global footprint of Azure, we\u2019re also announcing the preview of ACR geo-replication. Through the click of a map, customers can now manage a single registry, replicated across any number of regions. Any push\/pull of a container image to ACR will be routed to the closest registry. ACR geo-replication enables customers to manage their global deployments as one entity. Geo-replication is a first of its kind feature catering to customers who operate at global scale, further separating Azure from competitors with much smaller global footprints. View a video showing how you can leverage geo-replication and deploy regions as images arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an exciting moment for Azure and our customers. 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