Azure and K8s Architecture

Cloud Architecture

The purpose of this repo is to share some real-world inspired Azure and K8s architecture diagrams, that may help organizations accelerate their adoption of Azure and K8s. Each diagram will be accompanied by a textual explanation with the key attention points.

Each folder has purpose-built diagrams along with markdown files that highlights the attention points and shed some light on the design choices.

Release date Description Link
2024/09/05 The Microsoft AI Lanscape Map microsoft-ai-map
2024/06/30 AKS Landing Zones and Calico Network Policies. aks-lz-calico
2024/05/18 Event Driven Architecture - Network Flows. eda-network-flows
2024/04/21 Managing Ingress traffic with AKS. Ingress with AKS
2024/04/21 Managing Egress traffic with AKS. Egress with AKS
2024/02/18 The Istio Map. istio-map
2024/02/18 The OpenID Connect Map. networking-map
2024/02/18 The Azure Network Architecture Map. networking-map
2024/02/18 The Azure API Management Architecture Map. apim-map
2024/02/02 Cheat Sheet for Networking, Identity and Service Meshes. aks-cheat-cheet
2024/01/26 The Azure Containerization Cheat Sheet. containers-sheet
2024/01/07 The Azure Availability Cheat Sheet for web apps and APIs. availability-sheet
2023/12/31 The Azure Autoscaling Cheat Sheet autoscaling-cheat-sheet
2023/12/17 Simple Event Processing & basic messaging. In this section, I describe patterns such as point-to-point, pub/sub and the different architecture options in Azure, such as push/push, push/pull and even push/push/pull. simple-event-processing
2023/12/09 Added a page showing a BizTalk-like IPaaS approach. BizTalk-like IPaaS approach
2023/12/08 Added a page with a few API Management topologies. Azure API Management Topologies
2023/12/08 Added a page with a Azure tips. Azure Tips
2023/12/04 These diagrams help you understand how to handle East-West traffic in AKS. East-West within AKS
2023/12/04 These diagrams help you understand how to handle East-West traffic in the traditional Azure Hub & Spoke as well as in Virtual WAN. East-West with Hub & Spoke and VWAN
2023/11/25 These diagrams help you understand how to deploy a global API platform. Multi-region API deployment in two flavors