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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

Chapter 10: Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and ASP.NET MVC Applications

  1. You can choose from the following: passing arguments to the container commands, defining system environment variables for the container, mounting ConfigMaps or Secrets as container volumes, and optionally wrapping everything up using PodPresets.
  2. LogMonitor.exe acts as a supervisor for your application process and prints logs to standard output, which are gathered from different sources based on the configuration file. There are plans to further extend this solution to be used in the sidecar container pattern.
  3. You need to ensure that the migrations can be rolled back and that the database schema is fully compatible with the old and new application versions. In other words, backward-incompatible changes such as renames have to be handled specially to make things backward compatible between the individual...