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Hacking Kubernetes on Azure

Kubernetes got some press recently because Microsoft, IBM, RedHat and Google agreed to work together on a cloud platform. I was looking into a similar platform at the time (Mesos/Marathon stack from Apache) which was good, but didn't quite pass my open source litmus test. (ie. Ability to hack a working build in under 5 minutes). I had a mesos cluster running, but I had to build the zookeeper binaries from source to get the multi-machine cluster working. Kubernetes cluster was up and running locally without any trouble in vagrant environment. git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes cd kubernetes vagrant up The one machine cluster was also up and running quite easily, but the nginx docker images didn't deploy because of port conflicts. Then, I launched a cluster on GCE which also worked without any issues. So far, so good. Why Azure? - I had MSDN credits that I could use. I tried to use the azure scripts that were included, but it seemed to