Overview

In this self-paced exercise, you will learn how to configure and deploy an Upstream Kubernetes cluster for bare metal and VMs (aka MKS cluster) with support for Windows.

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What Will You Do by Part

Part	What will you do?
1	Provision an MKS Cluster with a Linux based control plane and a Windows worker node
2	Deploy a Windows Workload
3	Deprovision the cluster

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Architecture & Design

In this exercise, we will create an MKS cluster that contains two (2) nodes, one Linux node for the control plane and system resources and the other is a Windows node for workloads. A visual representation of this cluster design is shown below.

flowchart LR
  C[Rafay Platform]
  subgraph DATA[Cluster]
    direction LR
    subgraph NG1[Linux Control Plane]
        direction LR
        i1[Rafay Operator]
    end
    subgraph NG2[Windows Node]
        direction LR
        f1[Windows Workloads]
    end
  end
  C --- i1

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Assumptions

• You have access to a Linux node which meets the minimum requirements
• You have access to a Windows node which meets the minimum requirements

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