Can SharePoint 2016 Farm be provisioned on a Kubernetes cluster or using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

Question

I am just shifting to container Orchestration and would like to know if a mid size SharePoint 2016 farm can be provisioned inside a highly available container orchestration platform called Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Can we use Kubernetes cluster instead of VMs created on latest Windows Server 2016/2012 to provision SharePoint Farm? Since SharePoint is a highly resource consuming server application, scaling decision is a key to keep the Prod farm up and running within the containers. Containers are a better solution than highly scaled VMs but will it work for SharePoint? Please provide any pointers if anyone could.

Regards, Manish

Answer 1

No, this is not possible. You cannot run sharepoint in docker.

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/212904/can-an-on-prem-solution-of-sharepoint-2013-or-2016-be-hosted-in-a-docker-windows
Active directory accounts inside a windows container (server 2016 TP5)

Answer 2

SharePoint requires its servers and services to run using a specific Active Directory. There is no out-of-the box or easy solution for this. But you may refer to this blog post from Microsoft regarding how to register a container with AD.