You manage an AKS cluster from an Azure AD–joined machine. Developers packaged an application named MyApp into a container image and provided a Kubernetes YAML manifest. To deploy that manifest, you install the Azure CLI on the machine and run kubectl apply -f myapp.yaml. Will this deploy the application as intended?

Yes, this will deploy the application as intended. When you install the Azure CLI on an Azure AD-joined machine and are logged in with an account that has appropriate permissions to the AKS cluster, the kubectl command-line tool automatically uses the Azure CLI's authentication context to connect to the AKS cluster. This eliminates the need for manual kubeconfig setup. The kubectl apply -f myapp.yaml command then uses this authenticated connection to deploy the resources defined in the YAML manifest to the cluster.