What is Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager?

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Fleet) enables at-scale management of multiple Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Fleet supports the following scenarios:

• Create a Fleet resource and join AKS clusters across regions and subscriptions as member clusters.

• Orchestrate Kubernetes version upgrades and node image upgrades across multiple clusters by using update runs, stages, and groups.

• Automatically trigger version upgrades when new Kubernetes or node image versions are published (preview).

• Create Kubernetes resource objects on the Fleet resource's hub cluster and control their propagation to member clusters.

• Export and import services between member clusters, and load balance incoming layer-4 traffic across service endpoints on multiple clusters (preview).

Next steps

• Conceptual overview of Fleets and member clusters.
• Conceptual overview of Update orchestration across multiple member clusters.
• Conceptual overview of Kubernetes resource propagation from hub cluster to member clusters.
• Conceptual overview of Multi-cluster layer-4 load balancing.
• Create a fleet and join member clusters.