Deploy abcdesktop on AZURE with Microsoft AZURE Kubernetes services

Requirements

• az command line interface azure-cli installed.
• you need your Azure Subscription Name, your Username and Password
• A running AZURE Kubernetes service cluster ready and running.

AZURE console overview

Create a new AZURE Kubernetes service.

Options and features are set by default.

In this example the kubernetes cluster is named abcdesktopkubernetescluster. This screenshot describes the AZURE Kubernetes Service console. It shows the Nodes pools and Networking informations.

Check your caller-identity

If you don't have already done it, use the az login command line

az login

The next steps are running on your web browser with your own credentials.

Set your subscription to your azur account

az account set --subscription XXXXXX-YYYYY-ZZZZZ-AAAA-BBBBBBBBBB

Create your kubernetes config

az aks get-credentials --name MyManagedCluster --overwrite-existing --resource-group MyResourceGroup

For example

• resource-group: abcdesktop
• name: abcdesktopkubernetescluster

az aks get-credentials --resource-group abcdesktop --name abcdesktopkubernetescluster --overwrite-existing

Get your kubernetes cluster informations

Run the kubectl cluster-info command line, to confirm that kubectl command can communicate whith your azur cluster

kubectl cluster-info

Kubernetes control plane is running at https://abcdesktopkubernetescluster-dns-rm7w2mot.hcp.northeurope.azmk8s.io:443
CoreDNS is running at https://abcdesktopkubernetescluster-dns-rm7w2mot.hcp.northeurope.azmk8s.io:443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
Metrics-server is running at https://abcdesktopkubernetescluster-dns-rm7w2mot.hcp.northeurope.azmk8s.io:443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:metrics-server:/proxy

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

Run the abcdesktop install script

Download and extract the latest release automatically

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcdesktopio/conf/main/kubernetes/install-4.1.sh | bash

To get more details about the install process, please read the Setup guide

Connect to your abcdesktop service

By default install script is listening on a free tcp port :30443 and is using a kubectl port-forward command line to reach http web service :80

Open your web browser http://locahost:30443

Login as user Philip J. Fry with the password fry

After image pulling process, you get your first abcdesktop

Add applications to your desktop

Using the previous terminal shell, run the application install script

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcdesktopio/conf/main/kubernetes/pullapps-4.1.sh | bash

To get more details about the install applications process, please read the Setup applications guide

Then reload the web page with the desktop of Philip J. Fry New applications are now listed in the dock of plasmashell

Start Firefox application

The first run may involve waiting for the image pulling process to finish

Go to https://mylocation.org website to check where your pod is running. In my case for the region North Europe, the desktop is located near Dublin city in Ireland.