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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

Preparing VMs for Windows nodes

This section follows a similar structure as for the Ubuntu Server VM preparation. For the Windows VM, we will perform the following steps:

  1. Creating the VM
  2. Installing Windows Server 2019
  3. Configuring the network
  4. Installing the SSH server
  5. Installing and configuring Kubernetes prerequisites

Creating the VM

The steps for creating a Windows Server 2019 VM are almost the same as for Ubuntu Server 18.04. If you are interested in screenshots for the process, please refer to the previous sections.

To create the Windows Server 2019 Kubernetes node VM, open the Hyper-V manager application and perform the following steps:

  1. From the Actions menu, choose New and click Virtual Machine.
  2. Click Next, and choose...