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Define tenancy, workload criticality and compliance requirements
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Enterprise AKS Architecture
Design a secure, resilient and operable Azure Kubernetes Service platform for multiple application teams.
Objective: Balance developer velocity with identity, network, policy, supply-chain and reliability controls.
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Business context and requirements
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Clarify cluster, namespace and environment isolation boundaries
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Capture availability, scaling, upgrade and recovery objectives
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Architecture and design decisions
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Select private or public API access, network model and ingress
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Design node pools, identity, secrets, storage and registry integration
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Define GitOps, policy and workload-deployment patterns
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Security, cost and operating model
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Implement image governance, runtime security and audit telemetry
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Model cluster, node, network, logging and support costs
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Assign platform and product-team responsibilities with SLOs
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Validation, resilience and evolution
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Test upgrades, scaling, node failure and workload disruption
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Validate network policy, identity and secret-access boundaries
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Exercise backup, restore and regional recovery procedures
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