Azure

Provision a managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure AKS ready for Pinot.

Outcome

Create an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with the required tooling, ready to deploy Apache Pinot.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account

• The following CLI tools installed (see steps below)

Steps

1. Install tooling

kubectl

brew install kubernetes-cli

Verify:

kubectl version

Helm

brew install kubernetes-helm

Verify:

helm version

Azure CLI

Follow the Azure CLI installation guide or run:

brew update && brew install azure-cli

2. Log in to Azure

az login

3. Create a resource group

AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP=pinot-demo
AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP_LOCATION=eastus
az group create --name ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
                --location ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP_LOCATION}

4. Create an AKS cluster

The following creates a 3-node cluster named pinot-quickstart:

AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP=pinot-demo
AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
az aks create --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
              --name ${AKS_CLUSTER_NAME} \
              --node-count 3

5. Connect to the cluster

AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP=pinot-demo
AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
az aks get-credentials --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
                       --name ${AKS_CLUSTER_NAME}

Verify

kubectl get nodes

You should see your worker nodes listed and in Ready status.

Cleaning up

To delete the cluster when you are done:

AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP=pinot-demo
AKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
az aks delete --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
              --name ${AKS_CLUSTER_NAME}

Next step

Your cluster is ready. Continue to Kubernetes install to deploy Pinot.