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Running Azure on your laptop–Part 3–Prerequisites

In the previous post in this series I talked about why Azure Arc is also interesting for developers. Today we finally move on to the more practical part and try to get it up and running on our local machine.

Let’s first focus on what you need to have up and running on your local machine first:

As we want to run Azure Arc on our local machine, we also need to have a local AKS cluster up and running. You can use Minikube, MicroK8S, KIND (Kubernetes in Docker), or any other flavor you like that can be installed locally. I tested both in MiniKube and KIND.

Now we can move on to the Azure side. Let’s see what we need there:

  • An active Azure subscription

Register resource providers

Now we need to register 3 extra resource providers in our Azure subscription before we can use Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes:

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Kubernetes

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.KubernetesConfiguration

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.ExtendedLocation

Remark: Registration is an asynchronous process, and may take approximately 10 minutes.

You can monitor the registration process with the following commands:

az provider show -n Microsoft.Kubernetes -o table

az provider show -n Microsoft.KubernetesConfiguration -o table

az provider show -n Microsoft.ExtendedLocation -o table

You can also enable this through the Azure Portal:

  • Go to Subscriptions. Select the correct subscription.
  • Click on Resource providers. Enter the name of the resource provider in the filter box. Select the Resource Provider and click on Register.

Install CLI extensions

We also need some extensions installed for the Azure CLI:

az extension add --upgrade --yes --name connectedk8s

az extension add --upgrade --yes --name k8s-extension

az extension add --upgrade --yes --name customlocation

Remark: Make sure you have the latest version of both the CLI and the extensions installed.

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