Chapter 6: Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture

1. The main Kubernetes components are divided into the control plane and the API objects.
2. The three of them are managed Kubernetes solutions, provided by the three mayor public Cloud providers, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft respectively.
3. Containers have a smaller attack surface, but that doesn't exempt them from exploits, but the mayor container runtime projects are well maintained and if an exploit is detected it is rapidly addressed.
4. That will depend on the type of application you are trying to run and your familiarity with the technology. To migrate an application to containers is generally easy, but to do it in the most efficient way is what requires work.
5. No, you can find the Docker Engine for Windows and, at the time of writing, Kubernetes Windows Nodes are in beta.

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