How to Setup Highly Available NAT Gateway W/ AKS Deployment (Zonal Isolation)

Tyler McCoy 65 Reputation points
2023-12-08T19:33:09.2566667+00:00

Hi! Thank you in advance for reading. I've read this article, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the zone-resilient setup described work with an AKS deployment.

I'm looking to make the NAT Gateway setup for a single AKS node pool deployed to a single subnet have multi zone redundancy like so:

Screenshot 2023-12-08 at 12.30.46 PM

My question is, is it possible to setup zone resiliency with NAT Gateways for a single AKS node pool that is multi zonal? I've confirmed the nodes are being deployed into multiple zones, but since a subnet can only be associated with one NAT Gateway and an AKS node pool can only be associated with one subnet I'm unable to make a node pools NAT Gateway multi-zonal.

Do I need to deploy a new subnet and node pool for each zone? Or is there another way to handle this?

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  1. ChaitanyaNaykodi-MSFT 26,551 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-12-27T20:28:27.4766667+00:00

    @Tyler McCoy

    Thank you for your patience here and apologies for the delay.

    Do I need to deploy a new subnet and node pool for each zone?

    Your understanding here is correct, below is the response I got from the team.

    Currently, a single NAT gateway cannot support multiple zones. For a multi-zone architecture with NAT gateway, I would recommend creating 3 separate node pools per zone and assigning each to their own subnet. Each subnet can then be attached to a NAT gateway assigned to the same zone. To use a multi subnet setup with AKS, you can read more here:  Create node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Learn.

    Meanwhile please feel free to upvote this feature request for Zone-redundant NAT Gateway.

    Please let me know if you have any further questions and we will gladly continue with our discussion. Thank you!


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