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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to install and use the Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl. We have covered how to organize accessing multiple Kubernetes clusters using kubectl contexts, what are the possible strategies for working with development clusters, and how they fit Windows clusters. On top of that, you now know the basic kubectl commands and a few techniques that can be used for debugging applications running on Kubernetes: running ad hoc Pods, accessing Pod container logs, performing exec into a Pod container, and copying files between your local machine and the Pod container.

The next chapter will focus on the deployment of hybrid Linux/Windows Kubernetes clusters in on-premises scenarios. We will demonstrate how to create a fully functional, multi-node cluster on your local machine using Hyper-V VMs.