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Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By : Piotr Tylenda
Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the key aspects of Docker storage on Windows: using volumes and bind mounts. With the help of Azure, you successfully set up your Azure Files SMB share, which can be used to store container state data using SMB global mappings. Last but not least, you wrapped all this up by setting up your own three-node MongoDB ReplicaSet backed by Azure Cloud storage and verified your setup!

The next chapter will be the last one to focus purely on Docker on the Windows platform. You can expect to learn about the fundamentals of how to work with Docker images and how to use them in your application development life cycle. After that, we will be ready to begin our journey with Kubernetes.