Preparing VMs for Windows nodes

This section follows a similar structure as for the Ubuntu Server VM preparation. For the Windows VM, we will perform the following steps:

1. Creating the VM
2. Installing Windows Server 2019
3. Configuring the network
4. Installing the SSH server
5. Installing and configuring Kubernetes prerequisites

Creating the VM

The steps for creating a Windows Server 2019 VM are almost the same as for Ubuntu Server 18.04. If you are interested in screenshots for the process, please refer to the previous sections.

To create the Windows Server 2019 Kubernetes node VM, open the Hyper-V manager application and perform the following steps:

1. From the Actions menu, choose New and click Virtual Machine.
2. Click Next, and choose...