Merge pull request #276286 from dominicbetts/aio-aks-ee

AIO: Add AKS-EE notes and links

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/iot-operations/deploy-iot-ops/howto-prepare-cluster.md

@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ To prepare a K3s Kubernetes cluster on Ubuntu:
 
 ### [Codespaces](#tab/codespaces)
 
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Codespaces are easy to set up quickly and tear down later, but they're not suitable for performance evaluation or scale testing. Use GitHub Codespaces for exploration only.
+
 [!INCLUDE [prepare-codespaces](../includes/prepare-codespaces.md)]
 
 ---

articles/iot-operations/get-started/overview-iot-operations.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ms.date: 10/18/2023
 
 [!INCLUDE [public-preview-note](../includes/public-preview-note.md)]
 
-_Azure IoT Operations Preview_ is a unified data plane for the edge. It's composed of a set of modular, scalable, and highly available data services that run on Azure Arc-enabled edge Kubernetes clusters. It enables data capture from various different systems and integrates with data modeling applications such as Microsoft Fabric to help organizations deploy the industrial metaverse.
+_Azure IoT Operations Preview_ is a unified data plane for the edge. It's composed of a set of modular, scalable, and highly available data services that run on Azure Arc-enabled edge Kubernetes clusters such as [AKS Edge Essentials](#validated-environments). It enables data capture from various different systems and integrates with data modeling applications such as Microsoft Fabric to help organizations deploy the industrial metaverse.
 
 Azure IoT Operations:
 

articles/iot-operations/get-started/quickstart-deploy.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The services deployed in this quickstart include:
 * [Azure IoT Layered Network Management Preview](../manage-layered-network/overview-layered-network.md)
 * [Observability](../monitor/howto-configure-observability.md)
 
-The following quickstarts in this series build on this one to define sample assets, data processing pipelines, and visualizations. If you want to deploy Azure IoT Operations to run your own workloads, see [Prepare your Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster](../deploy-iot-ops/howto-prepare-cluster.md) and [Deploy Azure IoT Operations Preview extensions to a Kubernetes cluster](../deploy-iot-ops/howto-deploy-iot-operations.md).
+The following quickstarts in this series build on this one to define sample assets, data processing pipelines, and visualizations. If you want to deploy Azure IoT Operations to a cluster such as AKS Edge Essentials in order to run your own workloads, see [Prepare your Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster](../deploy-iot-ops/howto-prepare-cluster.md?tabs=aks-edge-essentials) and [Deploy Azure IoT Operations Preview extensions to a Kubernetes cluster](../deploy-iot-ops/howto-deploy-iot-operations.md).
 
 ## Before you begin
 
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ Azure IoT Operations is a suite of data services that run on Kubernetes clusters
 
 ## Connect a Kubernetes cluster to Azure Arc
 
-Azure IoT Operations should work on any Kubernetes cluster that conforms to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) standards. For this quickstart, use GitHub Codespaces to host your cluster.
+Azure IoT Operations should work on any Kubernetes cluster that conforms to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) standards. For speed and convenience, this quickstart uses GitHub Codespaces to host your cluster.
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Codespaces are easy to set up quickly and tear down later, but they're not suitable for performance evaluation or scale testing. Use GitHub Codespaces for exploration only. To learn how to deploy Azure IoT Operations to a production cluster such as AKS Edge Essentials, see [Prepare your Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster](../deploy-iot-ops/howto-prepare-cluster.md?tabs=aks-edge-essentials).
 
 In this section, you create a new cluster and connect it to Azure Arc. If you want to reuse a cluster that you've deployed Azure IoT Operations to before, refer to the steps in [Clean up resources](#clean-up-resources) to uninstall Azure IoT Operations before continuing.
 

articles/iot-operations/includes/prepare-codespaces.md

@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ Use GitHub Codespaces to try Azure IoT Operations on a Kubernetes cluster withou
 - [Kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/) for managing Kubernetes resources
 - Other useful tools like [Helm](https://helm.sh/) and [k9s](https://k9scli.io/)
 
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> Codespaces are easy to set up quickly and tear down later, but they're not suitable for performance evaluation or scale testing. Use GitHub Codespaces for exploration only.
-
 To create your codespace and cluster, use the following steps:
 
 1. Create a codespace in GitHub Codespaces.