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How to deploy a Windows container on Google Kubernetes Engine

Posted on 28 September 2019

Many people who run Windows containers want to use a container management platform like Kubernetes for resiliency and scalability. In a previous post, we showed you how to run an IIS site inside a Windows container deployed to Windows Server 2019 running on Compute Engine. That’s a good start, but you can now also run Windows containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Support for Windows containers in Kubernetes was announced earlier in the year with version 1. Read More ↗︎

How to deploy a Windows container on Google Compute Engine

Posted on 21 September 2019

Last year, we published a blog post and demonstrated how to deploy a Windows container running Windows Server 2016 on Google Compute Engine. Since then, there have been a number of important developments. First, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Server 2019. Second, Kubernetes 1.14 was released with support for Windows nodes and Windows containers. Supporting Windows workloads and helping you modernize your apps using containers and Kubernetes is one of our top priorities at Google Cloud. Read More ↗︎

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How to run Windows Containers on Compute Engine

Posted on 3 April 2018

Container virtualization is a rapidly evolving technology that can simplify how you deploy and manage distributed applications. When people discuss containers, they usually mean Linux-based containers. This makes sense, because native Linux kernel features like cgroups introduced the idea of resource isolation, eventually leading to containers as we know them today. For a long time, you could only containerize Linux processes, but Microsoft introduced support for Windows-based containers in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Read More ↗︎

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Istio + Kubernetes on Windows

Posted on 19 February 2018

I’ve been recently looking into Istio, an open platform to connect and manage microservices. After Containers and Kubernetes, I believe that Istio is the next step in our microservices journey where we standardize on tools and methods on how to manage and secure microservices. Naturally, I was very excited to get my hands on Istio. While setting up Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is pretty straightforward, it’s always useful to have a local setup for debugging and testing. Read More →

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Windows and .NET on Google Cloud Platform

Posted on 20 March 2017

Originally published in SDN Magazine 131 in February 2017. Introduction Until recently, there were two distinct camps in the software world: the Windows (A.K.A. closed) world and the Linux (A.K.A. open) world. In the Linux world, we had tools like the bash shell, Java programming language, Eclipse IDE, MySQL database, and many other open-source projects by Apache. In the Windows world, we had similar, yet distinct tools mainly developed by Microsoft, such as the C# programming language, Visual Studio IDE, SQL Server and PowerShell. Read More →

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Windows and .NET Codelabs - an overview

Posted on 7 February 2017

Google Developers Codelabs provide guided coding exercises to get hands-on experience with a wide range of topics such as Android Wear, Firebase and Web. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has its own section, with codelabs for Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Kubernetes and many more. We’re always working to create new content, and I’m happy to announce that we now have new codelabs for running Windows and .NET apps on GCP, with their own dedicated page. Read More ↗︎

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Google Cloud Next’17

Posted on 19 January 2017

In my previous post, I promised to talk about some good conferences I’m attending or speaking over the coming months. One of those conferences that I’m most excited about is Google Cloud Next’17: Google’s main cloud conference happening March 8–10 in San Francisco. Last year, I attended that conference as a Noogler. There were a lot of developers and great technical content. This year’s schedule has just been published and it looks even more exciting, especially if you’re a . Read More →

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How to build and launch an ASP.NET Core app from Google Cloud Shell — without ever leaving the browser

Posted on 11 November 2016

Google Cloud Shell, my favorite development tool for Google Cloud Platform, just got more awesome with two new features. First, we recently integrated Eclipse Orion, an online code editor, with Cloud Shell. If you’re not a Vim or Emacs fan, Orion is a welcome addition to Cloud Shell. It enables you to edit code right inside the browser with basic syntax highlighting and minimal effort. Second, we added .NET Core command line interface tools to Cloud Shell. Read More ↗︎

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Managing containerized ASP.NET Core apps with Kubernetes

Posted on 14 October 2016

One of our goals here on the Google Cloud Platform team is to support the broadest possible array of platforms and operating systems. That’s why we’re so excited about the ASP.NET Core, the next generation of the open source ASP.NET web framework built on .NET Core. With it, .NET developers can run their apps cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. One thing that ASP.NET Core does is allow .NET applications to run in Docker containers. Read More ↗︎

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Running Powershell on Google Cloud SDK

Posted on 13 September 2016

It’s exciting to see so many options for .NET developers to manage their cloud resources on Google Cloud Platform. Apart from the usual Google Cloud Console, there’s Cloud Tools for Visual Studio, and the subject of this post: Cloud Tools for PowerShell. PowerShell is a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. It’s the default task automation and configuration management tool used in the Windows world. A PowerShell cmdlet is a lightweight command invoked within PowerShell. Read More ↗︎

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