# Deploy an NGINX server in a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure

Paul Tomoiu

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Kubernetes,

Azure

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Published 2022-12-03

This tutorial explains how we can deploy an NGINX server in a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure.

First of all, we need to prepare the deployment YAML file. This file is named my-first-deployment.yml.

Here we have the content of my-first-deployment.yml :

powerpoint my-first-deployment.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-first-deploy
spec:
  replicas: 4
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: app1
  minReadySeconds: 10
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxUnavailable: 1
      maxSurge: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: app1
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: app1-pod
        image: nginx:1.16.1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080

The following command will create a new Deployment:

powerpoint
kubectl apply -f my-first-deployment.yml

Info

kubectl command POSTs the manifest to the API server.
Because we define what we want to have first, this is considered a Declarative way of creating Deployments.

We can run the following command to see the result:

kubectl get deployments

NAME              READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
my-first-deploy   4/4     4            4           2m38s

Get more information on a specific Deployment:

kubectl describe deployment my-first-deploy

In my case the result is:

Name:                   my-first-deploy
Namespace:              default
CreationTimestamp:      Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:22:47 +0200
Labels:                 <none>
Annotations:            deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 1
Selector:               app=app1
Replicas:               4 desired | 4 updated | 4 total | 4 available | 0 unavailable
StrategyType:           RollingUpdate
MinReadySeconds:        10
RollingUpdateStrategy:  1 max unavailable, 1 max surge
Pod Template:
  Labels:  app=app1
  Containers:
   app1-pod:
    Image:        nginx:1.16.1
    Port:         8080/TCP
    Host Port:    0/TCP
    Environment:  <none>
    Mounts:       <none>
  Volumes:        <none>
Conditions:
  Type           Status  Reason
  ----           ------  ------
  Available      True    MinimumReplicasAvailable
  Progressing    True    NewReplicaSetAvailable
OldReplicaSets:  <none>
NewReplicaSet:   my-first-deploy-74dd4f4676 (4/4 replicas created)
Events:
  Type    Reason             Age    From                   Message
  ----    ------             ----   ----                   -------
  Normal  ScalingReplicaSet  3m24s  deployment-controller  Scaled up replica set my-first-deploy-74dd4f4676 to 4

We can delete the Deployment created above using the following command:

kubectl delete deployment my-first-deploy