Given that I have a 24x7 AKS Cluster on AZURE, for which afaik Kubernetes cannot stop/pause a pod and then resume it standardly,
with, in my case, a small Container in a Pod, and for that Pod it can be sidelined via --replicas=0,
then, how can I, on-demand, best kick off a LINIX script packaged in that Pod/Container which may be not running,
I thought using ssh should work, after first upscaling the pod to 1 replica. Is this correct?
I am curious if there are simple http calls in AZURE to do this. I see CLI and Powershell to start/stop AKS cluster, but that is different of course.
You can interact remotely with AKS by different methods. The key here is to use the control plane API to deploy your kubernetes resource programmatically (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api/) .
In order to do that, you should use client libraries that enable that kind of access. Many examples can be found here for different programming languages: https://github.com/kubernetes-client
ssh is not really recommended since that is sort of a god access to the cluster and its usage is not meant for your purpose.