Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need the following:

• Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (version 1903 or later, 64-bit) installed
• Docker Desktop for Windows 2.0.0.3 or later installed
• The Chocolatey package manager for Windows installed (https://chocolatey.org/)
• Azure CLI installed

How to install Docker Desktop for Windows and its system requirements was covered in Chapter 1, Creating Containers.

Using the Chocolatey package manager is not mandatory, but it makes installation and application version management much easier. The installation process is documented here: https://chocolatey.org/install.

For Azure CLI, you can find detailed installation instructions in Chapter 2, Managing State in Containers.

To learn about managed Kubernetes providers, you will need your own Azure account in order to create an AKS instance with Windows nodes. If you haven't already created an account for the previous chapters in this book, you can read more about how to obtain a limited free account for personal use here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

You can download the latest code samples for this chapter from this book's official GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Kubernetes-on-Windows/tree/master/Chapter04.