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Running TDV on a Public Cloud - Microsoft Azure
The TIBCO Data Virtualization Container distribution provides a distributed platform for containerized applications. In this section you will find detailed instructions on how to run TDV on the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud platform.
For a basic understanding of the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) see:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-clusters-workloads
In order to interact with Azure APIs an AKS cluster requires either an Azure Active Directory service principal or a managed identity. You will need this to manage Azure resources such as the load balancer, container registry, etc. You can access the Azure portal using your account information at
https://portal.azure.com