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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate AI-200 (replaced AZ-204) · Domain 1: Develop containerized solutions on Azure

AKS basics for developers: Deployment and Service manifests, `kubectl apply`, requests and limits, ConfigMaps and Secrets, attaching ACR

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes cluster: Azure runs the control plane, and your workloads run on node pools of virtual machines. Compared with Container Apps you get the full Kubernetes API and more control, and you also take on more responsibility. As a developer you mostly write YAML manifests that describe desired state and let Kubernetes make it so.

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