How to identify Infrastructure resource group name from AKS cluster?
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
AKS builds upon a variety of Azure infrastructure resources, such as virtual machine scale sets, virtual networks, and managed disks. This allows leveraging many core capabilities of the Azure platform within the managed Kubernetes environment provided by AKS. For instance, most Azure virtual machine types can be directly utilized with AKS, and Azure Reservations can automatically provide discounts on those resources.
To enable this architecture, each AKS deployment spans two resource groups:
- Create the first resource group, which includes only the Kubernetes service resource. The AKS resource provider automatically generates the second resource group during deployment. An example of the second resource group is MC_myResourceGroup_myAKSCluster_eastus. For details on how to specify the name of this second resource group, refer to the next section.
- The second resource group, referred to as the node resource group, contains all infrastructure resources linked to the cluster. These resources include Kubernetes node VMs, virtual networking, and storage. By default, the node resource group is named like MC_myResourceGroup_myAKSCluster_eastus. AKS automatically deletes the node resource group whenever the cluster is deleted, so it should only be used for resources that share the cluster's lifecycle.
The infrastructure group name is displayed during AKS cluster creation. If the name is missed, it can be identified during post-installation.
RESOLUTION
- Navigate to the Resource Group in which the AKS server resides.
- Open the AKS cluster
- On the left pane, click on Settings > Properties
- The infrastructure Resource Group will be displayed on the right panel