# DSS in Azure[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/cloud/azure/index.html#dss-in-azure "Permalink to this headline")

DSS features deep integration with multiple Azure services:

* Connecting to WASB and ADLS data

* Connecting to Azure SQL databases

* Leveraging AKS, inclduing dynamically-managed AKS clusters

* Reference architecture: manage compute on AKS and storage on ADLS gen2

+ Overview

+ Security

+ Main steps

- Prepare the instance

- Install DSS

- Setup containerized execution configuration in DSS

- Setup Spark and metastore in DSS

- Setup ADLS gen2 connections

- Install AKS plugin

- Create your first cluster

- Use your cluster
