5. Handling common failures in AKS

Kubernetes is a distributed system with many working parts. AKS abstracts most of it for you, but it is still your responsibility to know where to look and how to respond when bad things happen. Much of the failure handling is done automatically by Kubernetes; however, you will encounter situations where manual intervention is required.

There are two areas where things can go wrong in an application that is deployed on top of AKS. Either the cluster itself has issues, or the application deployed on top of the cluster has issues. This chapter focuses specifically on cluster issues. There are several things that can go wrong with a cluster.

The first thing that can go wrong is a node in the cluster can ...

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