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Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By : Piotr Tylenda
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Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By: Piotr Tylenda

Overview of this book

With the adoption of Windows containers in Kubernetes, you can now fully leverage the flexibility and robustness of the Kubernetes container orchestration system in the Windows ecosystem. This support will enable you to create new Windows applications and migrate existing ones to the cloud-native stack with the same ease as for Linux-oriented cloud applications. This practical guide takes you through the key concepts involved in packaging Windows-distributed applications into containers and orchestrating these using Kubernetes. You'll also understand the current limitations of Windows support in Kubernetes. As you advance, you'll gain hands-on experience deploying a fully functional hybrid Linux/Windows Kubernetes cluster for development, and explore production scenarios in on-premises and cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with containerization, microservices architecture, and the critical considerations for running Kubernetes in production environments successfully.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Creating and Working with Containers
5
Section 2: Understanding Kubernetes Fundamentals
9
Section 3: Creating Windows Kubernetes Clusters
12
Section 4: Orchestrating Windows Containers Using Kubernetes

Using developer tooling with Kubernetes

In your everyday development of .NET applications on Windows, you will most likely use Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio Code. In this section, we will show you how to install additional extensions for Kubernetes that allow you to bootstrap applications for container orchestrators.

Support for managing Windows containers in Kubernetes is currently very limited in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code. You will not be able to use most of the features, such as integration with Azure Dev Spaces, although this is likely to change in the future. In the case of .NET Core, you can develop on Windows and rely on Linux Docker images.

First, let's take a look at how you can enable Kubernetes support for Visual Studio 2019.

Visual Studio 2019...