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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

Debugging a containerized application using Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights is a part of Azure Monitor, which provides application performance management (APM) capabilities for your applications. It is a large platform, with a rich UI (short for user interface) in the Azure portal, which provides the following features (among others):

  • Request monitoring and tracing, including distributed tracing between multiple microservices
  • Exception monitoring and snapshot debugging
  • Collecting performance counters for the host machines
  • Smart anomaly detection and alerting
  • Easy log collection and analytics

The most interesting feature for us is snapshot debugging, which can help diagnose issues in production Deployments where running with an attached remote debugger is not advised. For this, you will need Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise edition if you would like to analyze...