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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 namespaces to isolate applications

In the previous chapter, we already used a namespace (named dev) to logically group components of our application into a virtual cluster within an existing physical Kubernetes cluster. The general principle of namespaces is providing resource quotas and a scope for object namesnames inside a given namespace must be unique, but they do not have to be unique across different namespaces. By default, Kubernetes provides the following namespaces out of the box:

  • kube-system: A namespace for objects created by the Kubernetes system, such as kube-apiserver or kube-proxy Pods.
  • kube-public: A namespace that can be read by all users, also not authenticated—it will be created in clusters that are bootstrapped by kubeadm and it is generally intended for system use.
  • default: A namespace for objects with no other namespace.

Depending...