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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

Installing AKS Engine

AKS Engine itself is a command-line tool that can generate an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template based on a supplied configuration file. To use AKS Engine, you need the following which have installation processes described in previous chapters:

  • The Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell: Instructions are available in Chapter 2, Managing State in Containers, in the Using remote/cloud storage for container storage storage.
  • kubectl: Instructions are available in Chapter 6, Interacting with Kubernetes Clusters, in the Installing Kubernetes command-line tooling section.
  • SSH client for Windows: Instructions are available in Chapter 7, Deploying a Hybrid On-Premises Kubernetes Cluster, in the Creating a Kubernetes master node using kubeadm section.

With all the tools installed on your machine, you can proceed to installing AKS Engine itself. The recommended installation...