Run Kubectl command on AKS - azure-aks

Question

I have deployed a container image onto AKS successfully.
Now I want to run a command and a json file on the AKS using the pipeline once the container image is deployed onto AKS.

Answer 1

First of all you need to install azure cli & kubectl on your system.
Install Azure Cli
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli
Install Kubectl
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/
As far kubectl is installed, verify its version
kubectl version --client --short
Client Version: v1.23.1
The version in your case might be different.
Now is the time to get AKS credentials (kubeconfig) file to interact with AKS cluster.
az login
provide the credentials for azure AD.
az account set --subscription {subscription_id}
az aks get-credentials --resource-group MyAKSResoucceGroup --name MyAksCluster
Verify if cluster is connected
kubectl config current-context
MyAksCluster
You can play around with AKS and run all commands you want to run. Here is the cheatsheet or kubectl.
Kubectl Cheat-Sheet
https://www.bluematador.com/learn/kubectl-cheatsheet
In order to run commands using Azure DevOps on you need to create service connection in Azure DevOps to authenticate Azure DevOps with AKS.
Project Settings --> Service Connections --> New Kubernetes Service Connection --> Azure Subscription
Now you can run the kubernetes commands on this AKS using built in kubernetes task or using bash|powershell commands inside your pipeline.
Hope that helps you.
e:g
- task: Kubernetes#1
inputs:
connectionType: 'Kubernetes Service Connection'
kubernetesServiceEndpoint: '12345'
namespace: 'default'
command: 'apply'
useConfigurationFile: true
configurationType: 'inline'
inline: 'abcd'
secretType: 'dockerRegistry'
containerRegistryType: 'Azure Container Registry'