For this chapter you will need the following:
- Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (version 1903 or later; 64-bit) installed.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Community (or any other edition) if you want to edit the source code for the application and debug it. Please note that, for the Snapshot Debugger feature, you need the Enterprise edition.
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code, if you want to manage Kubernetes clusters using a graphical interface.
- The Chocolatey package manager for Windows (https://chocolatey.org/).
- An Azure account.
- A Windows/Linux Kubernetes cluster deployed using the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) engine, ready to deploy the Voting application from the previous chapters.
Using the Chocolatey package manager is not mandatory, but it makes the installation process and application version management much easier. The installation process is...