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This is my attempt to capture steps needed to deploy:

1. Azure Container Service (AKS) - currently only supporting Linux
2. Virtual-Kubelet - to create a Windows "node"
3. Azure Open Service Broker - make it easy to create Azure SQL databases and other services
4. Helm to deploy a Windows app with web app in container, backend in Azure SQL

Prerequisites

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Breadcrumbs

Docs on Azure VM agents

https://plugins.jenkins.io/azure-vm-agents

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$isoList = @(
    @{
        FileName="notepad.iso";
        Files=@(
            "c:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe"
        )
    }
)

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Prerequisites

1. Visual Studio 2017 community edition - easiest way to get MS C++ compiler and SDK

• Tick the boxes for at least desktop development with C++

2. Chocolatey
3. Bazel

Surprisingly, Go doesn't need to be preinstalled

Code used

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Recommended Resources for Kubernetes on Windows

Easier URL: http://aka.ms/windowscontainers/kubecon

This is a short collection of links to community resources, announcements and demos referenced at Kubecon 2017.

SIG-Windows

Join us at the meet-up on Thursday 11:55 - 12:30 PM, Meeting Room 5ABC, Level 3

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This is a list of things that I should code or document to help others get started with Windows Server Containers. Feedback welcome.

• Helm chart + OpenService Broker + Virtual Kubelet = Windows ASP.net app on Azure cheap & easy
  • https://cmatskas.com/application-configuration-settings-across-multiple-environments/ probably helps
• Share a sample starting with a prebuilt Vagrant box in Hyper-V, making some changes, and building a new box with Packer's hyperv-vmcx builder - see recent PR
• Share a Generation 2 Windows 10 Insider sample with Packer, use it to double check hashicorp/packer#5663
• Finish Vagrant + Hyper-V for k8s lab with 1 Linux VM, 1 or more Windows VMs https://github.com/PatrickLang/windows-k8s-lab
  • Have 2 Linux VMs working, still getting right bits together for Flannel plugin on Windows needed for join to work
• See if Vagrant & Windows 1709 "default switch" can work well together https://g

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Here's example steps for uploading a Windows VHD to Azure. I initially built mine using this Packer script, then used PowerShell to convert it - Convert-VHD -VHDType Fixed -Path <source.vhdx> -DestinationPath WindowsServer2016Insider.vhd, and last the Azure CLI 2.0 to upload it.

az login

# If you need to use a specific subscription, then 
# az account set --subscription <subscription name>

# Resource group to contain all resources

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Getting started with ACS

Create a cluster following the steps here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/kubernetes/container-service-kubernetes-windows-walkthrough

TL;DR version

az login 
az account set --subscription <redacted>

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PS > az login
To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://aka.ms/devicelogin and enter the code BWLS49K7Q to authenticate.
[
  {
    "cloudName": "AzureCloud",
    ...
  }
]

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Building a 1-node Linux-based cluster with Minikube on Windows 10

Download links & Quickstart at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube

Starting up Minikube