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You're reading from Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows Effectively orchestrate Windows container workloads using Kubernetes

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838821562

Length 592 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Piotr Tylenda

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Creating and Working with Containers

2. Creating Containers FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing State in Containers

4. Working with Container Images

5. Section 2: Understanding Kubernetes Fundamentals

6. Kubernetes Concepts and Windows Support

7. Kubernetes Networking

8. Interacting with Kubernetes Clusters

9. Section 3: Creating Windows Kubernetes Clusters

10. Deploying a Hybrid On-Premises Kubernetes Cluster

11. Deploying a Hybrid Azure Kubernetes Service Engine Cluster

12. Section 4: Orchestrating Windows Containers Using Kubernetes

13. Deploying Your First Application

14. Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and a ASP.NET MVC Application

15. Configuring Applications to Use Kubernetes Features

16. Development Workflow with Kubernetes

17. Securing Kubernetes Clusters and Applications

18. Monitoring Kubernetes Applications Using Prometheus

19. Disaster Recovery

20. Production Considerations for Running Kubernetes

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The Windows and Kubernetes ecosystem

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...

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Authors (1)

Piotr Tylenda

Piotr Tylenda is an experienced DevOps and software engineer with a passion for Kubernetes and Azure technologies. In his projects, he has focused on the adoption of microservices architecture for monolithic applications, developing big data pipelines for e-commerce, and architecting solutions for scalable log and telemetry analytics for hardware. His most notable contribution to Kubernetes' open source ecosystem is the development of Ansible automation for provisioning and deploying hybrid Windows/Linux Kubernetes clusters. Currently, he works at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen in Denmark as part of a team developing a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS offering.

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