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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

Windows Performance Counters

Windows provides a feature called Performance Counters, which are used to provide information on how well the operating system, service, application, or driver is performing. Normally, you use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to get individual metrics values and use more advanced applications such as Perfmon for visualizing the performance data locally. For .NET Framework applications, you can read multiple counters provided directly by the runtime; you can find a list of the counters in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-trace-profile/performance-counters. Having access to these metrics, you can easily monitor unusual spikes in the number of exceptions thrown (even without analyzing logs) or analyze garbage collection issues. On top of that, many classic .NET Framework applications expose their own Performance...