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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)
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Part 3: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
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Part 4: Operationalizing Windows Containers on AWS

AWS Windows Containers Deployment Tools

This is the final chapter in the book, and I hope you have enjoyed this journey so far. We have covered so much around deployment and best practices for Windows containers on AWS. Now, it is time to shift gears and learn about AWS tools that allow you to containerize and deploy Windows containers on AWS.

First, we will learn about eksctl, an open source command-line interface that allows you to deploy the Amazon EKS cluster; then, we will learn about App2Container, a free AWS tool that enables you to containerize .NET Framework and ASP.NET Framework applications to Windows containers without any code change. Finally, we will be learning about AWS Copilot, which simplifies and streamlines a Windows container deployment without the need for any infrastructure knowledge.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Deploying an Amazon EKS cluster with eksctl
  • Containerizing Windows applications with AWS App2Container
  • ...