Quick Start with AKS

To set up and run Meshery on AKS:

• Connect Meshery to your AKS cluster
  • Meshery CLI (mesheryctl)
  • Azure CLI (az)
• Install Meshery on your AKS cluster
• Access Meshery’s UI

Connect Meshery to Azure Kubernetes Cluster

The following set of instructions expects you to have created a AKS cluster in your resource group Configure Meshery to connect to your AKS cluster by executing:

 

 mesheryctl system config aks
 
 

Manual Steps

Alternatively, you may execute the following steps to manually configure Meshery to connect to your AKS cluster.

• Install Azure CLI(az), and login to your azure account using az login.

• After successful login, you have to select the subscription with which your AKS is associated with

 

 az account set --subscription 
 
 

• Get the kubeconfig from your AKS cluster

 

 az aks get-credentials --resource-group  --name 
 
 

• Set your cluster context and check your cluster-info

 

 kubectl set-context 
 kubectl cluster-info
 
 

Install Meshery into your AKS cluster

 

 $ kubectl create ns meshery
 $ helm repo add meshery https://meshery.io/charts/
 $ helm install meshery --namespace meshery meshery/meshery
 
 

Port forward to the Meshery UI

 

 export POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods --namespace meshery -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=meshery,app.kubernetes.io/instance=meshery" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
 kubectl --namespace meshery port-forward $POD_NAME 8080:8080
 
 

Meshery should now be running in your AKS cluster and the Meshery UI should be locally accessible. Navigate to http://localhost:9081 to log into Meshery.