AKS Accelerator: Kick-Start MVP - 4Wk Implementation

Our AKS Accelerator is built to kick start your Platform teams’ journey into AKS, which in turn allows you to enable deployment of containers and Kubernetes workloads, using Infrastructure as Code, accelerating the application development process and cloud native adoption to meet business and end-user needs, providing maximum value and longer term ROI.

Upon completion of the AKS Accelerator you will have the foundations built for your Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS).

Features of the AKS Accelerator include:

• Define business objectives and success criteria
• Planning workshop with key stakeholders
• Discovery & analysis of technology landscape
• High level architecture of AKS clusters
• Infrastructure as code provisioning of the AKS clusters
• Migration of one application as an MVP
• Setup basic observability / monitoring for AKS using azure monitor

Program Schedule: Week 1: Discovery & Setup

• Discovery Workshop to understand the technology landscape
• Validate pre-requisites for AKS deployment in target environment and discuss the dependencies
• Validate the networking, storage, compute, and security requirements/configuration
• Dependencies resolved and access setup

Week 2: Design & Build

• Design the AKS cluster and components breakdown
• Build the infrastructure as code to provision the cluster and components

Week 3: Deployment

• Installing and configuring the AKS cluster components on the client environment
• Configure authentication & RBAC
• Configure storage and network and pod security policies
• Configure and integrate with Azure Key Vault
• Install and integrate with Grafana & Prometheus

Week 4: Value Showcase

• Deploying a sample pre-containerised application
• Demonstrate auto scaling and self-healing capabilities
• Demonstrate the standard dashboards used for monitoring
• Recommendations for next steps
• Documentation, handover