In your everyday development of .NET applications on Windows, you will most likely use Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio Code. In this section, we will show you how to install additional extensions for Kubernetes that allow you to bootstrap applications for container orchestrators.
Support for managing Windows containers in Kubernetes is currently very limited in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code. You will not be able to use most of the features, such as integration with Azure Dev Spaces, although this is likely to change in the future. In the case of .NET Core, you can develop on Windows and rely on Linux Docker images.
First, let's take a look at how you can enable Kubernetes support for Visual Studio 2019.