You are correct. The provisioning sucked. I will be fully transparent about that. In fact, I had the same problems myself. You can see the list of issues here [

You are correct. The provisioning sucked. I will be fully transparent about that. In fact, I had the same problems myself. You can see the list of issues here [1]. That provisioning madness is actually unrelated to AKS, but it's being addressed by the team. This is one of the reasons why the service isn't GA yet. I'd say give it a try in the EastUS region, or some time after GA. Once you do have an AKS cluster up it all works well. [1]: https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues