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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

Deploying an Amazon EKS cluster with Windows nodes using Terraform

In Chapter 7, Amazon EKS – Overview, we learned about the fundamentals of an Amazon EKS cluster, then in Chapter 8, Preparing the Cluster for OS Interoperability, we learned how to prepare a heterogeneous Amazon EKS cluster with Windows nodes, and we explored core infrastructure concepts of Windows nodes in this chapter.

Now, we will be diving deep into how to deploy a heterogeneous Amazon EKS cluster with Windows a node group using Terraform.

Important note

You will see code snippets for the remaining part of this chapter. The full Terraform code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Running-Windows-Containers-on-AWS/tree/main/eks-windows.

Creating security groups

We will first create the security group that will allow inbound/outbound TLS traffic between the Amazon EKS cluster and Windows nodes:

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