Technical requirements

The requirements for this chapter are as follows:

• Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology features enabled in the BIOS
• A minimum of 4 GB of RAM
• Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (version 1903 or later, 64-bit) installed
• Visual Studio Code

For more information regarding the hardware requirements for running Docker and containers on Windows, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/system-requirements.

Windows 10 versions starting with Anniversary Update (version 1607, build 14393) are supported, but version 1903 is recommended for the best experience since it comes with all the necessary features. For more details regarding Windows 10 versions and container runtimes compatibility, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/version-compatibility.

Visual Studio Code can be downloaded for free from the official web page at: https://code.visualstudio.com/.

You can download the latest code samples for this chapter from this book's official GitHub repository at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Kubernetes-on-Windows/tree/master/Chapter01.