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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

Securing container runtime in Windows

When it comes to securing container runtime, Windows containers are a bit different than Linux containers. For Windows containers, the operating system uses a Job object (not to be confused with Kubernetes Job object!) per container with a system namespace filter for all processes running in a given container. This provides a logical isolation from the host machine that cannot be disabled. You can read more about the Windows container architecture in Chapter 1, Creating Containers.

This fact has a consequence: privileged containers are not available in Windows, though they are available in Linux. Additionally, with the incoming support for Hyper-V containers in Kubernetes, you will be able to secure the container runtime even more and enforce better isolation.

For Linux containers, you would consider using securityContext for a pod in order...