1 Kubernetes on Windows

Over the last decade, the software industry has made a major shift from large application deployments that are modified in-place on long-lived servers towards deploying smaller, immutable workloads deployed via containers. This has enabled more consistent environments across development and production, faster deployment times and more agility across large teams. Kubernetes has become the platform for management of these containers and has codified the best practices for running containers at scale. Kubernetes provides an api for deploying, scaling, monitoring, and operating applications deployed as containers. In this chapter we are going to learn how Windows fits into the ecosystem and the major components involved.

1.1 A brief Introduction

1.2 Why Kubernetes and Windows

1.2.1  Why not Kubernetes and Windows?

1.2.2  The Big picture

1.2.3  The Control Plane

1.2.4  The Worker Nodes

1.2.5  Deploying Windows workloads

1.2.6  Interacting with Windows workloads

1.3 Getting Started

1.4 Summary