From the course: Learning Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Using maintenance windows for AKS

Using maintenance windows for AKS

- [Instructor] Looking after an AKS cluster, there's a few tasks which are really important. One of those is maintenance, keeping your cluster up to date. It's quite a manual task usually. You have to go into the Azure portal or the command line, update the cluster, update the node pools, make sure everything still works, but you don't really want to be there and clicking the buttons late at night in your maintenance window. And for that reason, we've got the maintenance window support now. So let's look in the Azure portal. We're going to go and find our Kubernetes cluster. If it's under the recent resources, go ahead and click it. If you have Azure Services Kubernetes services showing, go ahead and hover over that and select your cluster. In the search box at the top, type AKS and go down to Kubernetes services. In here, find your AKS cluster and click it. We're just going to hide the Kubernetes services to give us a bit more room. Then on the left hand side, we're going to scroll…

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