K8s dev lost in AKS land need guidance
**Hey everyone! 👋 Need some guidance on building a secure & scalable AKS setup**
So I've been working with Kubernetes for a while now and I feel pretty comfortable with the core concepts — but I recently started a project to build a **secure and scalable infrastructure on Azure AKS** and honestly… Azure-specific stuff is throwing me off big time 😅
I'm getting confused by things like:
- Managed Identity vs Service Principals in AKS
- Network policies and how they differ from vanilla K8s
- Best practices for node pool sizing and autoscaling on AKS
- Securing the cluster (RBAC, Azure AD integration, private clusters)
- What tools actually work well in the Azure ecosystem (Flux? Defender for Containers? etc.)
I've been googling around but most tutorials either assume zero K8s knowledge or go way too deep into enterprise setups without explaining the "why".
If you've built something similar or know good resources (docs, courses, repos, YouTube channels), I'd really appreciate the help! 🙏
Thanks in advance!