Review existing Azure Landing Zones and their suitability to host AKS.
Plan AKS capacity planning, network topology and connectivity.
Plan for AKS Identity and Access Management.
AKS Security Governance, Observability.
AKS Operations management.
Container Registry.
AKS Business continuity and disaster recovery.
AKS Deployment - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to use for the cluster infrastructure (ARM, Terraform).
Packaging solution to use for deploying the applications and Kubernetes resources on AKS.
Decide on the use of a CI / CD tool for orchestrating the deployment of the cluster and its supporting resources.