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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

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need the following:

  • Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (version 1903 or later, 64-bit) installed
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Community (or any other edition) if you want to edit the source code for the application and debug itVisual Studio Code has limited support for the classic .NET Framework
  • An Azure account
  • Windows/Linux Kubernetes cluster deployed using AKS Engine, ready to deploy the voting application from the previous chapter

To follow along, you will need your own Azure account to create Azure resources for the Kubernetes cluster. If you haven't already created the account for the previous chapters, you can read more about how to obtain a limited free account for personal use at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster using AKS Engine has been covered in Chapter 8,...