AKS Cluster Architecture
AKS Automatic vs Standard, Azure CNI Overlay + Cilium, Workload Identity (Pod Identity is dead), Node Auto Provisioning, and a sane upgrade strategy.
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The architecture as diagrams, so you can hold the whole system in your head.
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