Getting started with Hazelcast on Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS )

2 min readMay 6, 2020

In my role as a Solution Architect, I have the opportunity to talk to a number of peers who are in various stages of adoption of the public clouds.

Recently I talked to a customer who was interested in seeing Hazelcast on Azure. Here are the steps I followed to get it up and running.

Step 1: Set up AKS on your Azure account.

Here is a screen shot of my AKS instance

Step 2 : Get credentials from your AKS instance

Launch the Azue cloud shell and run the following command:

az aks get-credentials — resource-group ssHazelcastDemo — name $1

You can now verify that you can run kubectl commands

kubectl get all

Step 3: Install Hazelcast

I used the helm charts. Here are the utility scripts I used.

Step 4: Validate by launching an external client and Management Center

You can now view management center at the exposed external IP address.

Similarly you can connect a Hazelcast Client to Hazelcast external ip.

Conclusion

In summary, it is pretty easy to get started on Hazelcast in any environment that has Kubernetes installed.

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Written by Sharath Sahadevan