Prerequisites

Tools

Tool	Version	Purpose
Azure CLI	>= 2.60	Azure resource management
Terraform	>= 1.5	Infrastructure as Code
kubectl	>= 1.30	Kubernetes CLI
Python 3	>= 3.8	Script patching (for KNative manifest fixes)

Azure

• An Azure subscription with permissions to create:
  • Resource Groups
  • Virtual Networks
  • AKS clusters
  • Event Hubs namespaces

Corporate Subscriptions

On corporate subscriptions, you may not have permission to:

• Register Resource Providers (handled by resource_provider_registrations = "none" in Terraform)
• Create Role Assignments (we don't need them with CNI overlay mode)

The Terraform config accounts for both of these limitations.

Azure Authentication

# Login to Azure
az login

# Verify your subscription
az account show

# Get your subscription ID (you'll need it for terraform.tfvars)
az account show --query id -o tsv

Resource Providers

The following Azure Resource Providers are required and will be auto-registered by Terraform:

• Microsoft.ContainerService (AKS)
• Microsoft.Network (VNet)
• Microsoft.EventHub (Event Hubs)
• Microsoft.Compute (VMs)
• Microsoft.Storage (Storage)
• Microsoft.ManagedIdentity (Managed Identity)
• Microsoft.Authorization (RBAC)
• Microsoft.OperationalInsights (Monitoring)

If auto-registration fails (409 conflicts on corporate subscriptions), register manually:

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.ContainerService
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Network
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.EventHub