Aks node pool per team

Ahmed Gameel 1

Hi,
If I have different teams using same AKS cluster, can I assign each team a dedicated node pool for better isolation?

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shiva patpi 13,141 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-15T06:48:21.137+00:00

Hello @Ahmed Gameel ,
Can you kindly take a look at the below best practices for cluster isolation in AKS , see if those approach helps out !

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/operator-best-practices-cluster-isolation

Regards,
Shiva.
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Ahmed Gameel 1 Reputation point

2022-02-15T07:23:36.51+00:00

Thank you @shiva patpi for your reply,
Unfortunately, physical isolation is maintained by different clusters, not node pools
And logical isolation is maintained by namespaces.

If it is not possible, can we assign a namespace to a node pool? so, when team#1 deploys a pod in his dedicated namespace, the pod will be directly deployed into a dedicated node pool?

shiva patpi 13,141 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-03-03T16:16:15.17+00:00

I was also thinking, how about using the concept of Labels & Label Selector for different node pools to achieve this .
Let's say create a nodepool1 and label all the nodes in that nodepool to team1, second nodepool and label all the nodes to team2.

Those teams have to deploy the applications by using the node selector in their YAML files. We can also use the concept of affinity & anti-affinity.

Having said that, what if the auto-scaler kicks off and the new node has not maintained the corresponding labels
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