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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 how the Docker ecosystem provides an infrastructure for storing and sharing container images using Docker Registry. The concepts of the image registry and automated cloud builds have been demonstrated using a public Docker Hub and a private Azure Container Registry, which you set up from scratch using the Azure CLI. You also learned about the best practices for tagging and versioning images using the semantic versioning scheme. Finally, you were introduced to ensuring image integrity using Docker Content Trust (DCT).

In the next chapter, we are going to perform our first deep dive into the Kubernetes ecosystem in order to understand some key concepts and how they currently fit Windows containers support.