Deploy Azure Arc-enabled data services

Applies to: AKS on Windows Server

This article provides a checklist of prerequisites you can follow to deploy Azure Arc-enabled data services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Windows Server. You must install AKS on Windows Server before using the checklist.

Prerequisites for AKS on Windows Server

• Provision a workload cluster with only Linux node pools.
• Configure storage using the disk Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers.

Prerequisites for Azure Arc-enabled data services

• Connect your clusters to Azure Arc for Kubernetes.

Confirm whether the custom location is enabled on your Kubernetes cluster by running the following command and checking for customLocation: enabled: true:

helm get values azure-arc

If the custom location isn't enabled, run the following CLI command:

az connectedk8s enable-features -n <clusterName> -g <resourceGroupName> --features cluster-connect custom-locations

• Create and manage custom locations on Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (for direct connectivity mode only).

Next steps

• Create data controller