Authors:Brandon Smith (Microsoft) and Mark
Rossetti (Microsoft) The long-awaited day has arrived:HostProcess
containers, the Windows equivalent to Linux privileged containers,
has finally made it to GA in Kubernetes 1.26! What
are HostProcess containers and why are they useful? Cluster
operators are often faced with the need to configure their nodes
upon provisioning such as installing Windows services, configuring
registry keys, managing TLS certificates, making network
configuration changes, or even deploying monitoring tools such as a
Prometheus's node-exporter.Previously, performing these actions on
Windows nodes was usually