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Day Two Cloud 137: Automating Windows Container Builds
Today’s Day Two Cloud gets into the weeds of a real-world project build around Windows containers. Windows containers? Yes, the goal was to run a particular job and deploy it on Kubernetes using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Our guest is Sai Gunaranjan, Principal Architect for a large healthcare company.
We discuss:
* Why Windows containers instead of Linux
* The pipeline Sai had in place before and what the team replaced it with
* The build creation process and pipeline
* Challenges with and benefits of the build process
* Why the company eventually went back to Windows VMs
* Lessons learned
Takeaways:
1. Windows Containers are real ???? and they work
2. https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/
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Tech Bytes: Singtel
In this Tech Bytes episode we welcome back Singtel to discuss real-life examples of WAN problems from Singtel customers and how Singtel helped solve them, including deploying broadband Internet to augment MPLS circuits and getting better performance visibility into the WAN.
Show Links:
@asgr86 – Sai Gunaranjan on Twitter
Asgr.medium.com – Sai’s blog
Sai on LinkedIn
GitHub Actions Virtual Environments – GitHub
Day Two Cloud 128: DevOps’ing All The Things – Packet Pushers