Initially, Kubernetes was a Linux-centric solution – this was a result of the fact that mainstream containerization also originates from the Linux platform. In 2014, Microsoft and Windows were soon to join the containerization world – Microsoft announced support for Docker Engine in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2016. Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Windows was started in March 2016 and in January 2018, Kubernetes 1.9 provided beta support for Windows Server Containers. This support eventually matured to production level in April 2019 when Kubernetes 1.14 was released.
Why is Windows support for Kubernetes so important? Windows dominates in enterprise workloads and with Kubernetes being the de facto standard in container orchestration, support for Windows brings the possibility of migrating the vast majority of...
