Deploy an application

NodeSelector

You must specify node selectors on your applications so that the pods land on a node with the appropriate operating system.

For Linux pods, use the following node selector text in your manifests. 


nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/os: linux
        kubernetes.io/arch: amd64

For Windows pods, use the following node selector text in your manifests.


nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/os: windows
        kubernetes.io/arch: amd64

Our deployment file already has the proper node selectors so you won’t have to add them yourself.

Deploy a Windows sample application

We are now ready to deploy our Windows IIS container

kubectl create namespace windows

cat << EoF > ~/environment/windows/windows_server_iis.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: windows-server-iis
  namespace: windows
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: windows-server-iis
      tier: backend
      track: stable
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: windows-server-iis
        tier: backend
        track: stable
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: windows-server-iis
        image: mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:2004
        ports:
        - name: http
          containerPort: 80
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        command:
        - powershell.exe
        - -command
        - "Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server; Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri 'https://dotnetbinaries.blob.core.windows.net/servicemonitor/2.0.1.6/ServiceMonitor.exe' -OutFile 'C:\\ServiceMonitor.exe'; echo '<html><body><br/><br/><marquee><H1>Hello EKS!!!<H1><marquee></body><html>' > C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\default.html; C:\\ServiceMonitor.exe 'w3svc'; "
      nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/os: windows
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: windows-server-iis-service
  namespace: windows
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 80
  selector:
    app: windows-server-iis
    tier: backend
    track: stable
  sessionAffinity: None
  type: LoadBalancer
EoF

kubectl apply -f ~/environment/windows/windows_server_iis.yaml

Let’s verify what we just deployed

kubectl -n windows get svc,deploy,pods


NAME                                 TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP                                                              PORT(S)        AGE
service/windows-server-iis-service   LoadBalancer   10.100.114.95   a52bab64f1fb34b338104c4ab20eb867-195815018.us-east-2.elb.amazonaws.com   80:31184/TCP   68s
NAME                                 READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/windows-server-iis   1/1     1            1           68s

NAME                                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/windows-server-iis-7cff879775-7t8hk   1/1     Running   0          68s

It will take several minutes for the ELB to become healthy and start passing traffic to the pods.

Finally, we will connect to the load-balancer

export WINDOWS_IIS_SVC=$(kubectl -n windows get svc -o jsonpath='{.items[].status.loadBalancer.ingress[].hostname}')

echo http://${WINDOWS_IIS_SVC}

Output

Windows IIS Welcome screen