Preface

Starting with version 1.14, Kubernetes has brought the most anticipated feature of the year 2019: production-level support for Windows Server container workloads. This is a huge milestone that enables migration to cloud-native technologies for all enterprises that rely heavily on Windows technologies at their core. Developers and system operators can now leverage the same tools and pipelines to deploy both Windows and Linux workloads, scale them in a similar way, and undertake efficient monitoring. From a business perspective, container adoption for Windows means lower operational costs and better hardware utilization than plain VMs.

You are holding in your hands a book that will guide you in terms of how to use Kubernetes and Docker containers in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem – it covers both hybrid Windows/Linux Kubernetes cluster deployment and handles cluster operations using a Windows client machine. Since support for Windows in Kubernetes is a fairly new concept, you can expect the official documentation and guides to still be scarce. In this book, we aim to systematize your knowledge regarding Kubernetes scenarios that involve Windows. Our aim was to create the ultimate guide for Kubernetes on Windows.