Aks Cluster Management

Platform9 can easily connect to Azure and import existing AKS clusters, bringing them under management of Platform9 to enable centralized administration. Once a cluster has been imported and the External Cluster Operator has been installed Platform9 enables:

• View AKS clusters alongside BareOS, Azure Native Clusters and AWS Native Clusters

• View and Edit RBAC configuration

• View and Manage Cluster Workloads

• Use the Application Catalog to deploy Helm 3 applications

• Deploy Platform9 Monitoring

IAM User Role/Group

Platform9 requires that the service principal that was used to create the Cloud Provider must have access to the AKS Cluster as an Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster Admin Role. To validate IAM access download auto$ CLI

Import an AKS Cluster

To import an AKS cluster, clients must first create a Service Principal for Platform9 in Azure and grant the Service Principal access to each AKS cluster. Once the Service Principal is set up correctly, clients can then create an Azure Cloud Provider within Platform9. Once the Cloud provider has been added, clients can import any AKS cluster that the Service Principal has access to.

Steps to Import an AKS Cluster

1. Within Azure, Create a Service Principal with Contributor Role for Platform9

2. Grant the Service Principal access to each AKS cluster

3. Log into Platform9 and navigate to Infrastructure ⇾ Cloud Providers tab

4. On the Cloud Providers tab, click “+ Add Cloud Provider”

5. Then, provide a Name for the Cloud Provider and the Azure account details for the Service Principal and click next

6. Once the Cloud Provider has been validated, clients can save the credentials to Platform9

7. Validate the Cloud Provider has access to the regions you are running the AKS clusters in, and then click 'Done'

8. Next, navigate to the Infrastructure ⇾ Clusters tab and select 'Import' from the Add Cluster button

9. Select Azure as the target cloud and click 'Import AKS Cluster'

10. Select the Cloud Provider configured with AKS Cluster Access and click 'Next'

11. Select each region where the AKS clusters are running, and then select each cluster to be imported. Several clusters can be imported in one action. Once all clusters are selected, click 'Next'

12. Review the final list for import and click 'Import'

13. 1. IMPORTANT: [ECO ](/kubernetes/external-cluster-operator) must be installed into each cluster after import to ensure that Platform9 can communicate with the clusters API server

14. Install ECO for each imported cluster