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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) 57

Active Directory integration, on Kubernetes 128

mutating Webhook 128

validating Webhook 128

AD integration

setting up 57, 58

Amazon CloudWatch 143

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

using 149-151

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

components 144

log group 144

log stream 144

Amazon EBS CSI driver 109

Amazon EC2 nodes 106

Amazon ECS 15, 22

components 22

fundamentals 22-27

reference link 15

task networking 27-30

Amazon ECS Agent 39-42

Amazon ECS Anywhere

reference link 15

Amazon ECS cluster

deploying, with Terraform 30, 34

Amazon ECS-optimized Windows AMIs 38, 39

Amazon ECS service scheduler 26

daemon strategy 26

replica strategy 26

Amazon EKS

reference link 15

Windows...