Deep Dive of Windows Containers on Kubernetes

Explore a comprehensive deep dive into Windows Containers on Kubernetes in this 36-minute conference talk by Pengfei Ni from Microsoft. Gain insights into the current status of Windows containers in Kubernetes, understand their inner workings including clustering, networking, and storage aspects. Learn about known issues, mitigations, and the future outlook for Windows containers. Discover the fundamentals of containerization, Windows Base Images, container layers, and isolation models. Examine the Kubernetes architecture on Windows Server, core features, network plugins, and storage solutions. Review practical examples, known challenges, and the roadmap towards General Availability in Kubernetes v1.13. Enhance your knowledge of Windows container integration with Kubernetes to better manage cloud-native applications in production environments.

Intro
What is a container
Why containers
What inside a container
Windows Base Images
Container Layers
How containers run
Isolation Model
Window Server versions
Version matrix
Challenges of Containers
Kubernetes 101
Kubernetes on Windows Server
Core Features
Clustering
Network Plugins
Storage
Examples
Known issues
GA in v1.13
Future work
References