About This Architecture
Azure Kubernetes Service cluster running a three-tier microservices platform with dedicated system, user, and autoscale node pools across kube-system, ingress-nginx, monitoring, and application namespaces. Traffic flows from nginx-ingress through ClusterIP services routing to user-svc, order-svc, and payment-svc deployments, each with replicated pods consuming ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Persistent Volume Claims. Prometheus and Grafana pods monitor cluster health via metrics-server and Application Insights, while Cluster Autoscaler and HPA Controller manage dynamic scaling across Standard_D4s_v3 and Standard_D8s_v3 node SKUs. This architecture demonstrates production-grade AKS patterns including namespace isolation, managed identity integration with Container Registry, and observability-first design. Fork and customize this diagram to model your own multi-tenant microservices topology on Azure. The separation of system, user application, and autoscaling infrastructure ensures blast radius containment and independent resource governance.