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Running Windows Containers on AWS

You're reading from   Running Windows Containers on AWS A complete guide to successfully running Windows containers on Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614136
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Why Windows Containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
2. Chapter 1: Windows Container 101 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Amazon Web Services – Breadth and Depth 4. Part 2: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
5. Chapter 3: Amazon ECS – Overview 6. Chapter 4: Deploying a Windows Container Instance 7. Chapter 5: Deploying an EC2 Windows-Based Task 8. Chapter 6: Deploying a Fargate Windows-Based Task 9. Part 3: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
10. Chapter 7: Amazon EKS – Overview 11. Chapter 8: Preparing the Cluster for OS Interoperability 12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Windows Node Group 13. Chapter 10: Managing a Windows Pod 14. Part 4: Operationalizing Windows Containers on AWS
15. Chapter 11: Monitoring and Logging 16. Chapter 12: Managing a Windows Container's Image Life Cycle 17. Chapter 13: Working with Ephemeral Hosts 18. Chapter 14: Implementing a Container Image Cache Strategy 19. Chapter 15: AWS Windows Containers Deployment Tools 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying an Amazon EKS cluster with eksctl

eksctl is an open source command-line interface built by Weaveworks that simplifies Amazon EKS cluster deployment and management. At the same time, it also offers deep integration with AWS services running on top of Amazon EKS, such as EMR, Fargate, Outposts, and Cloudwatch.

eksctl is an excellent tool if you are starting with Amazon EKS and want to deploy clusters for testing and production environments. CloudFormation powers eksctl, so for every command line that needs to deploy something within your Amazon EKS cluster, a CloudFormation stack or nested stack will be created.

In the following figure, we have a diagram of how eksctl deploys Amazon EKS resources through CloudFormation:

Figure 15.1 – eksctl deploying an Amazon EKS cluster with Windows node group

Figure 15.1 – eksctl deploying an Amazon EKS cluster with Windows node group

Creating a heterogeneous Amazon EKS cluster requires a lot of configurations and moving parts, as we learned in Chapter 9, Deploying a Windows...

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