Day Two Cloud 016: Checking Up On Azure Kubernetes Service

In June 2018, Microsoft went GA with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). As it sounds, AKS is a fully managed Azure service using Kubernetes as the orchestration layer for container-based applications.
Given all the hype around Kubernetes and cloud applications, I wanted to get a reality check on the service, which is just over one year old now.
My guest is Justin Luk, the Azure Kubernetes Service with Programmer Manager at Microsoft.
We discuss:

* Why Azure launched a Kubernetes service when it already had multiple ways to deploy containers
* Technical limitations that Microsoft wanted to avoid
* The business drivers for the service
* Customer adoption one year in
* How Microsoft deals with the constant updates to Kubernetes while supporting older versions
* The problems and challenges of running a service at scale

Show Links:
What Is Kubernetes? – Microsoft Azure
Support policies for Azure Kubernetes Service – Microsoft Azure
Azure AKS – Github
Justin Luk on Twitter
Justin Luk on GitHub