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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

Replacing a failed etcd cluster member

As a highly-available database, etcd tolerates minority failures, which means a partial failure where the majority of cluster members are still available and healthy; however, it is a good practice to replace the failed members as soon as possible in order to improve the overall cluster health and minimize the risk of majority failure. It is also highly recommended that you always keep the cluster size greater than two members in production. In order to recover from a minority failure, you need to perform two steps:

  1. Remove the failed member from the cluster.
  2. Add a new replacement member. If there is more than one failed member, replace them sequentially.
The etcd documentation provides a list of use cases for runtime configuration changes, as you can see at https://etcd.io/docs/v3.3.12/op-guide/runtime-configuration/.

The way that you create...