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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 Kubernetes manifest files

Declarative management of Kubernetes objects is much closer to the spirit of Kubernetesyou focus on telling Kubernetes what you want (describing the desired state) instead of directly telling it what to do. As your application grows and has more components, managing the cluster using imperative commands becomes impossible. It is a much better idea to use imperative commands for read-only operations, such as kubectl describe, kubectl get, and kubectl logs, and perform all modifications to the clusters desired state using the kubectl apply command and Kubernetes object configuration files (also known as manifest files).

There are a couple of recommended practices when using manifest files:

  • It's preferable to use YAML manifest files over JSON manifest files. YAML is easier to manage and more commonly used by Kubernetes community.
  • Store...