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- You're standing up a new AKS cluster and need to choose a network plugin: Azure CNI or kubenet. What's the actual trade-off, and why can this decision be hard to reverse later?Intermediate
- Should a new AKS cluster use native Kubernetes RBAC or Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization to control kubectl-level access, and what does the Azure option actually change?Intermediate
- A new LoadBalancer-type Service in AKS has been stuck in 'Pending' with no external IP for twenty minutes. How do you actually diagnose this in Azure specifically?Intermediate
- A team converted their AKS cluster to a private cluster for security reasons. The next day, several engineers and a CI/CD pipeline can no longer run kubectl commands at all. How do you diagnose this?Advanced
- How would you let a pod in AKS call a Key Vault or Storage API using its own Azure identity, without mounting any credential file or secret into the pod at all?Advanced