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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

Using cloud container builders

One of the features that Docker Hub offers is automated builds (autobuilds). This is especially useful in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment scenarios where you would like to ensure that each push to your code repository results in a build, a publish, and potentially a deployment.

Currently, Docker Hub does not support Windows images, but this is likely to change in the near future. We will demonstrate this usage on a Linux image, but all the principles remain the same. For Windows container cloud builds, check out the next section about Azure Container Registry.

To set up automated builds, complete the following steps:

  1. Create a GitHub repository where your application code resides, together with a Dockerfile that defines the Docker image for the application.
  2. Create a Docker Hub repository and add an autobuild trigger. This trigger...