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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

The Windows and Kubernetes ecosystem

Initially, Kubernetes was a Linux-centric solution this was a result of the fact that mainstream containerization also originates from the Linux platform. In 2014, Microsoft and Windows were soon to join the containerization world Microsoft announced support for Docker Engine in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2016. Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Windows was started in March 2016 and in January 2018, Kubernetes 1.9 provided beta support for Windows Server Containers. This support eventually matured to production level in April 2019 when Kubernetes 1.14 was released.

Why is Windows support for Kubernetes so important? Windows dominates in enterprise workloads and with Kubernetes being the de facto standard in container orchestration, support for Windows brings the possibility of migrating the vast majority of...