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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

Questions

  1. What is the difference between the control plane and the data plane in Kubernetes?
  2. How does the declarative model and the concept of desired state work and what are its benefits?
  3. What is the difference between a container and a Pod?
  4. What is the purpose of the Deployment API Object?
  5. What are the key limitations of Kubernetes support on Windows?
  6. What is minikube and when should you use it?
  7. What is the difference between AKS and AKS Engine?

You can find answers to these questions in the Assessments section of this book.