In this post, We will look at how to run a Java Spring Boot application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and connects to Azure PostgreSQL using Azure AD Pod identity. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you quickly deploy and manage applications based on microservices.
Azure Active Directory pod-managed identities uses Kubernetes primitives to associate managed identities for Azure resources and identities in Azure Active Directory (AAD) with pods.
What we’ll cover in this post:
- Create an AKS cluster and Pod Identity.
- Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server.
- Prepare Java Spring Boot application for AKS.
- Deploy Azure Container Registry (ACR).
- Deploy Java application to Kubernetes with Kustomize.
The following diagram shows the architecture of the above steps:
