I'm having a .Net Framework and .NetCore Containers and I would like to run them in Kubernetes. I have Docker Desktop for Windows installed and Kubernetes with it. How can I run these Windows Containers in Kubernetes? This Documentation specifies how to create a Windows Node on Kubernetes, but it is very confusing. As I am on windows machine and I see linux based commands in there (And no mention of what OS you need to run all those). I am on Windows 10 Pro Machine. Is there a way to run these containers on Kubernetes?
When I try to create a Pod with Windows Containers, it fails with the following error message "Failed to pull image 'imagename'; rpc error: code = Unknown desc = image operating system 'windows' cannot be used on this platform"
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To my knowledge you can't run Windows Containers on local version of Kubernetes at this moment. When you enable Kubernetes option in your Docker Desktop for Windows installation, the Kubernetes cluster is simply run inside Linux VM (with its own Docker Runtime for Linux containers only) on Hyper-V hypervisor.
The other solution for you is to use for instance a managed version of Kubernetes with Windows nodes from any of popular cloud providers. I think relatively easy to start is Azure (if you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free trial account, valid for 12 months).
I would suggest you to use an old way to run Kubernetes on Azure, a service called Azure Container Service aka ACS, for one reason, it has been verified by me to be working well with Windows Containers, especially for testing purposes (I could not achieve the same with its successor, called AKS):
Run following commands in Azure Cloud Shell, and your cluster will be ready to use in few minutes.
az group create --name azEvalRG --location eastus
az acs create -g azEvalRG -n k8s-based-win -d k8s-based-win --windows --agent-count 1 -u azureuser --admin-password 'YourSecretPwd1234#x27; -t kubernetes --location eastus