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Updated on 2025-06-13 GMT+08:00
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Creating a Windows Cluster

Windows containers, developed by Microsoft, are a containerization technology designed to operate on the Windows OS, similar in concept to Linux containers. They are particularly useful in the following scenarios:

  • Modernizing .NET applications: Legacy ASP.NET (4.x) applications can be containerized to facilitate easier migration and maintenance.
  • Windows-dependent applications: They are ideal for web applications requiring Internet Information Services (IIS), Component Object Model Plus (COM+) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) components requiring traditional Windows architectures, and applications requiring Windows authentication and domain services.
  • Batch processing tasks: Tasks such as Windows scheduled jobs and data processing workflows that rely on Windows tools can be efficiently containerized.

This section describes how to build a Windows cluster on Huawei Cloud based on the Alauda Container Platform.

Cluster Capability

  • Kubernetes version: 1.28.6
  • Windows version: Windows Server 2019 (1809) datacenter
  • Network model: Only the Flannel networks are supported.
  • Monitoring component: Only Prometheus is available.

Notes and Constraints

  • Only Linux nodes can serve as control plane nodes. Both Linux and Windows nodes can be used as compute nodes.
  • Only Linux nodes can function as GPU nodes, enabling GPU computing capabilities for clusters.

Creating a Windows Cluster

  1. Log in to the CCE console and click Buy Cluster in the upper right corner.
  2. Click Create Windows Cluster.

  3. On the purchase page of Alauda Container Platform, select ACP on Public Cloud (CSP managed K8s), enter the required number of virtual cores, and place an order.
  4. After the payment is complete, wait until the Windows cluster is deployed.
Parent Topic: Clusters