1. Prepare Your AKS Platform

To set up the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to use Portworx, follow the steps below. For more information on AKS, see this article.

Install the Azure CLI

Follow the steps here to install the Azure CLI.

az login
az account set –subscription <Your-Azure-Subscription-UUID>

Check locations to create AKS cluster

Get the Azure locations using the Azure CLI command:

az account list-locations

Example locations:

centralus,eastasia,southeastasia,eastus,eastus2,westus,westus2,northcentralus
southcentralus,westcentralus,northeurope,westeurope,japaneast,japanwest
brazilsouth,australiasoutheast,australiaeast,westindia,southindia,centralindia
canadacentral,canadaeast,uksouth,ukwest,koreacentral,koreasouth

Create an Azure Resource Group

Create a Resource Group by specifying its name and location in which you will be deploying your AKS cluster.

az group create –name <resource-group-name> –location <location>

Create a Service Principal in Azure AD

This Service Principal will be used to grant Portworx permissions to manage the disks used in the cluster. Store the password which acts as the client secret and the appId will is the client ID.

az ad sp create-for-rbac \
   --role="Contributor" \
   --scopes="/subscriptions/72c299a4-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-6855109979d9/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>"
{
  "appId": "1311e5f6-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-ede45a6b2bde",
  "displayName": "azure-cli-2017-10-27-07-37-41",
  "name": "http://azure-cli-2017-10-27-07-37-41",
  "password": "ac49a307-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-fa551e221170",
  "tenant": "ca9700ce-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-09c48f71d0ce"
}

Create the AKS cluster

Create the AKS cluster in the above Resource Group using either the Azure CLI or the Azure Portal. This is described on the AKS docs page. If you have already deployed an AKS cluster, then create the Service Principal for the Resource Group in which your AKS cluster is present.