Windows containers have been out there for a few years but I feel like it is now time to have our full .NET apps running in Kubernetes for production. The reason why I say this is because Kubernetes starts supporting Windows Containers running in AKS from version v1.14 and the supported Windows node’s OS must be Windows Server 1809/Windows Server 2019 or later. Of course, you don’t have to run a full .NET app in a Windows node but the question is why it even exists when you don’t have a plan to run them. That discussion is not the purpose of this post though.
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Docker
Windows Authentication for Linux containers running inside Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
by Giang Pham
Carry on with what we have been doing in the previous post regarding deploying containerized apps to AKS. This post addresses some of the issues and how we are going to solve it. My main goal is to allow the app to have access to the on-prem resources using Windows Authentication for Linux containers, just like we would normally do with our apps running on an intranet network. I briefly mentioned our approach to achieve this using Azure VNet. In case you haven’t seen that post, here is the link.