Questions related to Kubernetes

1) Is it recommended to run IFS cloud on AKS? and is it supported?
When IFS Cloud was released, it came in two major versions: IFS Managed and Remote. The IFS Managed version is supported on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), while the Remote version is supported on MicroK8s.

2) Can we enable autoscaling for the pods? There is a ifs-autoscaler-values with a flag called enabled
Auto-scaling using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is supported in AKS, but not in remote installtion with MicroK8s. (For the Remote version, please confirm the details with the R&D team.)

3) Can ifs-cloud pod have multiple replicas? Yes

4) Because when running 2 replicas of ifs-cloud in migration env, the 2nd replica does not get healthy.? 

  Check pod events: microk8s kubectl describe pod <pod-name>
  Check logs for the second replica.   
  microk8s kubectl describe pod <pod-name>

What 1) means in practice, is that IFS Cloud has AKS support *ONLY* when hosted by IFS in our managed cloud.

Any off-IFS deployment should be Remote, with MicroK8S on a VM.

For the logs, use kubectl logs - you usually need to specify the container as well with -c .
Often the first 1-2 parts of a pod name.
For example:

kubectl logs ifsiam-pod-c348f7j -c ifsiam > ifsapp-iam20250516.log

..run on the management server would export the ifsiam container logs from within this specific ifsiam pod into a file for further analysis.

You can also use mtctl dump to get ‘everything’ as a zip file.