topic Re: How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes in Prisma Cloud Discussions

How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes

AMabrouk — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:53:51 GMT

Hi,

It has been a real pain trying to work out how to deploy Prisma defender on Kubernetes AKS cluster windows nodes after following this site instructions but no joy: Kubernetes (paloaltonetworks.com)

Can anyone help please?

Thank you

Abdel

Re: How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes

AKing9 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:59:02 GMT

Greetings AMabrouk,

I hope that this note finds you well! I know that it has been a while since you had posted this question but I wanted to see if you still potentially needed any help. Thank you for your time and I hope that you have a good remainder of your day.

Kind Regards,

J. Avery King

Re: How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes

MDavis29 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:29:11 GMT

AMabrouk,

Please allow me a few cycles to deploy a lab environment and test this for you. Staging AKS with windows nodepools requires a little extra effort but let me try the deployment and provide feedback.

Re: How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes

MDavis29 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:37:26 GMT

After testing this in my lab I discovered we do not support deploying a defender to AKS with windows nodes. The defender pod will fail and stay in a container creating status. To deploy a defender to a AKS cluster with windows nodes currently you will need to deploy as a Single Defender, Chose the defender type as Host - Defender Windows, RDP into the windows node and run the install script. Azure offers a bastion server option to assist with accessing the node.

Re: How do we deploy defender on windows kubernetes

KSLee — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:19:26 GMT

Yes, this is the only workaround now, but please take note that the windows node will not show inside the AKS cluster but will show as a non-cluster container (Single Defender).