Azure Service Operator is an open source project to help you provision and manage Azure services using Kubernetes. Developers can use it to provision Azure services from any environment, be it Azure, any other cloud provider or on-premises — Kubernetes is the only common denominator!

It can also be included as a part of CI/CD pipelines to create, use and tear down Azure resources on-demand. Behind the scenes, all the heavy lifting is taken care of by a combination of Custom Resource Definitions which define Azure resources and the corresponding Kubernetes Operator(s) which ensure that the state defined by the Custom Resource Definition is reflected in Azure as well.

Azure Service Operator

_Read more in the recent announcement here — _https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/06/25/announcing-azure-service-operator-kubernetes/

In this blog post:

• You will get a high level overview of Azure Service Operator (sometimes referred to as ASO in this blog)
• How to set it up and use it to provision Azure Event Hubs
• Deploy apps to Kubernetes which use the Azure Event Hubs cluster

_The code is available in this GitHub repo _https://github.com/abhirockzz/eventhubs-using-aso-on-k8s

Getting started….

Azure Service Operator supports many Azure services including databases (Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Azure SQL.), core infrastructure components (Virtual Machines, VM Scale sets, Virtual Networks etc.) and others as well.

It also supports Azure Event Hubs which is a fully managed data streaming platform and event ingestion service with support for Apache Kafka and other tools in the Kafka ecosystem. With Azure Service Operator you can provision and manage Azure Event Hubs namespaces, Event Hub and Consumer Groups.

So, let’s dive in without further ado! Before we do that, please note that you will need the following in order to try out this tutorial:

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