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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

Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMIs

AWS provides customers with Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMIs, which are preconfigured with the necessary components such as Docker Engine, Kubelet, and Containerd to run Windows containers as pods successfully.

There are four Amazon EKS-optimized Windows AMI variants:

  • Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2022 Full AMI
  • Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2022 Core AMI
  • Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2019 Full AMI
  • Amazon EKS-optimized Windows Server 2019 Core AMI

In Chapter 4, Deploying a Windows Container Instance, we dove deep into the differences between the Full and Core variants.

The Amazon EKS-optimized AMI has the following components included:

  • kubelet is a node agent that runs on each node. Its main responsibility is to register the node with the cluster's API Server and ensures pods specified on PodSpec are running and in a healthy state.
  • kube-proxy is a network proxy that runs on each node...
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