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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

Working on microservices in a team using Azure Dev Spaces

Azure Dev Spaces (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-spaces/), also known as AZDS (short for Azure Dev Spaces), is one of the latest offerings from Microsoft for an enhanced Kubernetes development experience. This service provides a rapid and iterative development experience for teams using AKS clusters. Please note that currently, only managed AKS clusters are supported, which means that you cannot use AKS Engine for this service. What is more, the current version does not support the development of Windows container applications; it is possible to interact with existing Windows pods, but they will not be managed by AZDS (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-spaces/how-to/run-dev-spaces-windows-containers). From this point of view, AZDS is not useful for Windows container application development, but, as...