Windows Server Containers, with Patrick Lang

Sep 11, 2019

Patrick Lang is the co-chair of the Kubernetes Windows SIG. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, developing Kubernetes and related open-source projects supporting Windows Server Containers. Patrick joins Adam and Craig to tell the story of how containers came to Windows.

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Chatter of the week

• Getting to the Peak Tram

News of the week

• KubeCon 2019 schedule
  • Tim Hockin and Kal Henidak on dual stack IPv4
  • Building a 5G network live on stage
• GKE Shielded VM Nodes
• Mæsh
• Project Contour 0.15
  • Contour on Kind
• TechCrunch video: How Kubernetes Changed Everything
• Aaron Roydhouse reverse engineers release schedules as 1.15 hits Preview on Azure and Rapid Channel on GKE
• GKE Scalability best practices
  • The Kubernetes scalability hypercube
• Cloud Foundry Networking Team Update
• Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Symphony by Ivan Babenko
• The Cult of Kubernetes and Hacker News discussion

Links from the interview

• Windows Server containers
• Windows Server Core and Nano Server
• Sessions on Windows
• Docker and Windows partnership announced in 2014
• Active Directory
• Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA)
  • GMSAs for Windows containers
• Windows network namespaces
• Host Networking Service and Virtual Filtering Platform
• GMSA integration with Kubernetes
• GPU acceleration in Windows Containers
• Batch files!
• Patching:
  • Patch Tuesday
  • Windows base OS images on Docker Hub
  • Windows container version compatibility
  • Hyper-V isolation
• Docker for Windows
• Get started with Windows containers
• Windows Server Containers in preview on AKS, EKS or GKE
• SIG Windows and their Slack channel
• Patrick Lang on GitHub