tutorial-sql-server-ag-kubernetes.md

title	Configure a SQL Server Always On availability group in Kubernetes for high availability | Microsoft Docs
description	This tutorial shows how to deploy a SQL Server always on availability group with Kubernetes on Azure Container Service.
author	MikeRayMSFT
ms.author	mikeray
manager	craigg
ms.date	07/16/2018
ms.topic	tutorial
ms.prod	sql
ms.component
ms.suite	sql
ms.custom	sql-linux,mvc
ms.technology	linux

Configure a SQL Server Always On availability group in Kubernetes for high availability

Learn how to configure a SQL Server Always On availability group on Kubernetes in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This solution provides the high availability (HA) and read-scale benefits of a SQL Server Always On availability group with the container orchestration benefits of Kubernetes.

This tutorial demonstrates how to configure a highly available SQL Server instance in containers that use AKS.

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• Create an SA password
• Create storage
• Create the deployment
• Connect with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Verify failure and recovery

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial,

• Create an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster in a resource group named myResourceGroup. Name the AKS cluster myAKSCluster.

  az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster
  

Create storage

Create the deployment

Verify failure and recovery

Summary

Next steps

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Introduction to Kubernetes