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Running Windows Containers on AWS

By : Marcio Morales
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Running Windows Containers on AWS

By: Marcio Morales

Overview of this book

Windows applications are everywhere, from basic intranet applications to high-traffic public APIs. Their prevalence underscores the importance of combining the same tools and experience for managing a modern containerized application with existing critical Windows applications to reduce costs, achieve outstanding operational excellence, and modernize quickly. This comprehensive guide to running and managing Windows containers on AWS looks at the best practices from years of customer interactions to help you stay ahead of the curve. Starting with Windows containers basics, you’ll learn about the architecture design that powers Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate for Windows containers. With the help of examples and best practices, you’ll explore in depth how to successfully run and manage Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate clusters with Windows containers support. Next, the book covers day 2 operations in detail, from logging and monitoring to using ancillary AWS tools that fully containerize existing legacy .NET Framework applications into containers without any code changes. The book also covers the most common Windows container operations, such as image lifecycle and working with ephemeral hosts. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered how to run Windows containers on AWS and be ready to start your modernization journey confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Why Windows Containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
4
Part 2: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
9
Part 3: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
14
Part 4: Operationalizing Windows Containers on AWS

Amazon EKS – fundamentals

Kubernetes has been proven to be the new standard to run containerized applications; it is cloud agnostic, robust, and widely used by companies of any size. All that comes at the expense of a learning curve, and it is crucial that companies, leaders, and managers invest in their DevOps teams with high-quality training and technical resources.

The Kubernetes ecosystem is big and complex, and my objective isn’t to teach you about Kubernetes; instead, this book intends to help you learn all the gotchas on how to successfully schedule and manage Windows containers in the form of pods on an Amazon EKS cluster. In order to accomplish that, we will be focusing on Windows container-related topics only, and leverage the beauty of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes orchestrator that allows customers to run containers as pods on top of node groups without needing to install and operate a Kubernetes control...