Industry use-cases of Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Kubernetes Service:

𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕡 𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣, 𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕪

Deploy and manage containerized applications more easily with a fully-managed Kubernetes service. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver and scale applications with confidence.

𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙯𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙆𝙪𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚:

1.Accelerate containerised application development:

Easily define, deploy, debug and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes applications and automatically containerise your applications. Use modern application development to accelerate time to market.

Add a full CI/CD pipeline to your AKS clusters with automated routine tasks and set up a canary deployment strategy in just a few clicks. Detect failures early and optimise your pipelines with deep traceability into your deployments.

2.Increased operational efficiency:

Rely on built-in automated provisioning, repair, monitoring, and scaling. Get up and running quickly and minimize infrastructure maintenance.

*Easily provision fully managed clusters with Prometheus based monitoring capabilities.

*Use Azure Advisor to optimize your Kubernetes deployments with real-time, personalized recommendations.

*Save on costs by using deeply discounted capacity with Azure Spot.

*Elastically add compute capacity with serverless Kubernetes, in seconds.

*Achieve higher availability and protect applications from datacenter failures using availability zones.

3.Build on an enterprise-grade, more secure foundation:

A) Dynamically enforce guardrails defined in Azure Policy at deployment or in CI/CD workflows. Deploy only validated images to your private container registry.

B)Get fine-grained identity and access control to Kubernetes resources using Azure Active Directory.

C)Enforce pod security context and configure across multiple clusters with Azure Policy. Track, validate, reconfigure, and get compliance reports easily.

D)Achieve superior security with a hardened operating system image, automated patching, and more. Automate threat detection and remediation using Azure Security Center.

E)Use Azure Private Link to limit Kubernetes API server access to your virtual network. Use network policy to secure your communication paths.

solution-architectures

𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙰𝚣𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙺𝚞𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎 (𝙰𝙺𝚂)

Migrate your existing application to the cloud, build a complex application that uses machine learning or take advantage of the agility offered by a microservices architecture.

L͟i͟f͟t͟ a͟n͟d͟ s͟h͟i͟f͟t͟ t͟o͟ c͟o͟n͟t͟a͟i͟n͟e͟r͟s͟ w͟i͟t͟h͟ A͟K͟S͟

Easily migrate existing application to container(s) and run within the Azure managed Kubernetes service (AKS).

𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐊𝐒

Use AKS to simplify the deployment and management of microservices based architecture. AKS streamlines horizontal scaling, self-healing, load balancing, secret management.

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐊𝐒

DevOps and Kubernetes are better together. Implementing secure DevOps together with Kubernetes on Azure, you can achieve the balance between speed and security and deliver code faster at scale.

𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐂𝐈

Use the AKS virtual node to provision pods inside ACI that start in seconds. This enables AKS to run with just enough capacity for your average workload.

𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐨𝐓 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

This reference architecture shows a recommended architecture for IoT applications on Azure using PaaS (platform-as-a-service) components.

Case Study

ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕦𝕕-𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕤𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕦𝕡 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕆𝕍𝕀𝔻-𝟙𝟡 𝕧𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕖

Atgenomix SeqsLab is Taiwan’s first cloud-based high-performance computing platform in DNA and RNA sequencing research. It was developed as part of an effort to boost the country’s smart medical industry. It can accelerate the identification of precise medical solutions in vaccine development and treatment guidelines for COVID-19. To manage big data of genome sequencing analysis and computing power, improve the current genomic analysis workflows, and speed up the process of developing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, Atgenomix works with Microsoft Azure big data and cloud core technology services on the Atgenomix SeqsLab product platform

C͟r͟e͟a͟t͟i͟n͟g͟ a͟n͟ e͟n͟t͟e͟r͟p͟r͟i͟s͟e͟-c͟l͟a͟s͟s͟ g͟e͟n͟o͟m͟e͟ s͟e͟q͟u͟e͟n͟c͟i͟n͟g͟ a͟n͟d͟ e͟f͟f͟i͟c͟i͟e͟n͟t͟ c͟o͟m͟p͟u͟t͟i͟n͟g͟ m͟a͟n͟a͟g͟e͟m͟e͟n͟t͟ p͟l͟a͟t͟f͟o͟r͟m͟ w͟i͟t͟h͟ A͟z͟u͟r͟e͟ C͟l͟o͟u͟d͟ S͟e͟r͟v͟i͟c͟e͟s͟

Atgenomix SeqsLab, Taiwan’s first cloud-based high-performance computing platform in DNA and RNA sequencing research, was developed as part of an effort to boost the country’s smart medical industry. It can accelerate the identification of precise medical solutions in vaccine development and treatment guidelines for COVID-19.

“With SeqsLab and the high-performance computing power of Azure, we want medical institutions to speed up the viral and host genome sequencing analysis of COVID-19,” says Chang Ming Tai, a co-founder of Atgenomix, the company that built the platform.

“This can provide critical information on how the virus mutates, conserves, and causes disease at the genetic level, and can help fast-track vaccine development and treatment delivery to alleviate the outbreak as well as to prevent the future pandemic.”

Research teams will be able to harness the computing power of big data with Microsoft Azure and improve the current genomic analysis workflows, computing efficiency, detection accuracy, and data scale.

Moreover, the Bio-IT platform that runs on Azure can process genomic workloads in two or three hours what conventional research analysis methods can handle in a week.

I͟n͟t͟e͟g͟r͟a͟t͟i͟n͟g͟ m͟e͟d͟i͟c͟a͟l͟ r͟e͟s͟e͟a͟r͟c͟h͟ a͟n͟d͟ c͟l͟o͟u͟d͟ c͟o͟m͟p͟u͟t͟i͟n͟g͟ t͟o͟ h͟e͟l͟p͟ o͟v͟e͟r͟c͟o͟m͟e͟ t͟h͟e͟ p͟a͟n͟d͟e͟m͟i͟c͟

Atgenomix was selected as the first Microsoft Accelerator in 2019, becoming a new Microsoft partner. Microsoft is optimistic about the future development of Atgenomix, inviting the company to join its AI solutions and becoming a close marketing partner to create more market opportunities.

According to Ken Sun, General Manager of Microsoft Taiwan, Microsoft and its partners are committed to helping those who are fighting the pandemic.

“This project blends medical research and cloud computing. It brings Taiwan’s distinct advantage of tech capabilities closer to the medical industry,” he says. “We look forward to doing our part to help the world to overcome this public health crisis and hope that new medical progress is made in the fight against COVID-19.”

“This project blends medical research and cloud computing. It brings Taiwan’s distinct advantage of tech capabilities closer to the medical industry. We look forward to doing our part to help the world to overcome this public health crisis and hope that new medical progress is made in the fight against COVID-19. ”

-Ken Sun: General Manager of Microsoft Taiwan Atgenomix