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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. Soon after the Microsoft and Kubernetes announcements, we added support for Windows Server 2019 in Compute Engine and Windows containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Given this expanded landscape for Windows containers on Google Cloud, let’s take a fresh look at how best to deploy and manage them. In this first post, we’ll show you how to deploy an app to a Windows container on Windows Server 2019 on Compute Engine. Then stay tuned for the next post, where we’ll deploy and manage the same Windows container via Kubernetes 1.14 on GKE.
Let’s get started!
First, you need a Windows Server instance on which to run a Windows container. Compute Engine comes with many flavors of Windows Server (Server vs. Server Core), and many versions (2008 to 2019). There are also container-optimized versions that come with Docker and some base images already installed.
For this exercise, let’s choose the latest container-optimized version of Windows Server. In Google Cloud console, create a VM with the Windows Server 2019 Datacenter for Containers image:
