Overview
Qovery-managed AKS provides zero-configuration Kubernetes clusters on Microsoft Azure. Qovery creates, configures, and maintains your AKS cluster with best practices built-in.Quick Start
1
Connect Azure Subscription
Organization Settings → Cloud Providers → Add Azure Subscription
- Provide service principal credentials
- Subscription ID, Client ID, Client Secret, Tenant ID
- Select region for cluster
2
Create Cluster
Settings → Clusters → Create Cluster
- Name:
production-aks - Provider: Azure
- Region:
eastus - Click Create
3
Wait for Provisioning
Cluster creation takes 20-25 minutes:
- Resource group creation
- VNet and networking setup
- AKS control plane creation
- Node pool provisioning
- Qovery components installation
4
Deploy Applications
Once cluster is ready, start deploying applications
What Qovery Creates
- ✅ AKS cluster (latest stable Kubernetes)
- ✅ VNet with subnets across availability zones
- ✅ NAT Gateway for outbound connectivity
- ✅ Azure AD integration and RBAC
- ✅ Cluster autoscaler
- ✅ Azure Load Balancer or Application Gateway
- ✅ Azure Disk CSI driver
- ✅ Metrics server
- ✅ Qovery agent and observability stack
Configuration Options
Cluster Settings
VM Sizes:- General Purpose: Standard_D, Standard_DS, Standard_B
- Compute Optimized: Standard_F, Standard_FX
- Memory Optimized: Standard_E, Standard_M
- GPU: Standard_NC, Standard_ND, Standard_NV
- Min nodes: 1
- Max nodes: 100
- Cluster autoscaler automatically provisions optimal VMs
- Multiple node pools for different workload types
- Enable Spot VMs for cost savings (up to 80% off)
- Qovery handles evictions gracefully
- Mix of Spot and regular VMs for reliability
Network Settings
VNet Configuration:- VNet with /16 CIDR (65,536 IPs)
- Subnet for nodes with /20 CIDR
- Subnet for pods with /16 CIDR (Azure CNI)
- NAT Gateway for outbound traffic
- Public endpoint (default)
- Private cluster (enterprise feature)
- Authorized IP ranges for API server
- Azure AD integration