Running Windows Containers on AWS

Scale up your Windows containers seamlessly on AWS powered by field-proven expertise and best practices on Amazon ECS, EKS, and Fargate

Key Features
Leverage the most recent best practices to run and manage Windows containers on AWS
Learn about AWS tools to containerize and run Windows containers on AWS
Deeper understanding on how Amazon ECS, EKS, and Fargate supports Windows containers
Book Description
Windows applications are everywhere, from basic intranet applications to high-traffic public APIs. Their prevalence underscores the importance of combining the same tools and experience for managing a modern containerized application with existing critical Windows applications to reduce costs, achieve outstanding operational excellence, and modernize quickly. This comprehensive guide to running and managing Windows containers on AWS looks at the best practices from years of customer interactions to help you stay ahead of the curve.

Starting with Windows containers basics, you'll learn about the architecture design that powers Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate for Windows containers. With the help of examples and best practices, you'll explore in depth how to successfully run and manage Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate clusters with Windows containers support. Next, the book covers day 2 operations in detail, from logging and monitoring to using ancillary AWS tools that fully containerize existing legacy .NET Framework applications into containers without any code changes. The book also covers the most common Windows container operations, such as image lifecycle and working with ephemeral hosts.

By the end of this book, you'll have mastered how to run Windows containers on AWS and be ready to start your modernization journey confidently.

What you will learn
Get acquainted with Windows container basics
Run and manage Windows containers on Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate
Effectively monitor and centralize logs from Windows containers
Properly maintain Windows hosts and keep container images up to date
Manage ephemeral Windows hosts to reduce operational overhead
Work with the container image cache to speed up the container's boot time
Who this book is for
This book is targeted towards DevOps engineer, SREs, solution architects, or a Windows sysadmin who wants to learn more about running Windows containers on AWS. In order to learn from this book, you should have a basic understanding of containers, Docker, and Kubernetes. The book is also beneficial for Windows application developers who want to explore how to achieve better application scalability using containers as a compute layer.

Table of Contents
Windows Container 101
Amazon Web Services - Breadth and Depth
Amazon ECS - Overview
Deploying a Windows Container Instance
Deploying an EC2 Windows-Based Task
Deploying a Fargate Windows-Based Task
Amazon EKS - Overview
Preparing the Cluster for OS Interoperability
Deploying a Windows Node Group
Managing a Windows Pod
Monitoring and Logging
Managing a Windows Container's Image Life Cycle
Working with Ephemeral Hosts
Implementing a Container Image Cache Strategy
AWS Windows Containers Deployment Tools