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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

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need the following:

  • Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (version 1903 or later, 64-bit) installed
  • Docker Desktop for Windows 2.0.0.3 or later installed
  • The Chocolatey package manager for Windows installed (https://chocolatey.org/)
  • Azure CLI installed

How to install Docker Desktop for Windows and its system requirements was covered in Chapter 1, Creating Containers.

Using the Chocolatey package manager is not mandatory, but it makes installation and application version management much easier. The installation process is documented here: https://chocolatey.org/install.

For Azure CLI, you can find detailed installation instructions in Chapter 2, Managing State in Containers.

To learn about managed Kubernetes providers, you will need your own Azure account in order to create an AKS instance with Windows nodes. If you haven...