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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scaling an AKS cluster manually

A single Azure CLI command or a couple of clicks in the Azure portal can increase or decrease the number of Kubernetes nodes in your AKS cluster. While scaling the cluster, you should keep your deployment strategy in mind to ensure that decreasing the number of nodes doesn't endanger your application's availability. 

Let's look at the Azure CLI command to learn how to scale an AKS cluster. The following command will increase our AKS cluster node count to 4:

az aks scale --name packtaks--resource-group Packt-AKS --node-count 4

Using the Azure portal, go to AKS Cluster resource and Scaling. Slide the slider to increase the count and click SaveThis will start the deployment process for new nodes. Note that this ...

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