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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# kube-startup.ps1 is used to run kubelet and kubeproxy as a process. The processes can be viewed using TaskManager(Taskmgr.exe).
+# Please note that this startup script does not start the API server. Kubernetes control plane currently runs on Linux
+# and only Kubelet and Kube-Proxy can be run on Windows
+ 
+param (
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$ContainerNetwork, 
+    [string]$InterfaceForServiceIP = "vEthernet (HNS Internal NIC)",    
+    [string]$LogDirectory = "C:\temp",
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$Hostname,
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$APIServer,
+    [string]$InfraContainerImage = "apprenda/pause",
+    [string]$ClusterDNS = "10.0.0.10",
+    [string]$KubeletExePath = ".\kubelet.exe",
+    [string]$KubeProxyExePath = ".\kube-proxy.exe"
+)
+
+# CONTAINER_NETWORK environment variable is used by kubelet and is used to determine the Docker network to be used by PODs
+$env:CONTAINER_NETWORK = $ContainerNetwork
+
+# INTERFACE_TO_ADD_SERVICE_IP environment variable to which Services IPs will be added. By Default "vEthernet (HNS Internal NIC)" which is created by
+# when Docker is installed is used as it is private to the Host
+$env:INTERFACE_TO_ADD_SERVICE_IP = $InterfaceForServiceIP
+
+# Runs the kubelet with the user provided or default options
+Start-Process -FilePath "$KubeletExePath" -ArgumentList --hostname-override=$Hostname, --pod-infra-container-image=$InfraContainerImage, `
+--resolv-conf=, --api-servers=$APIServer, --cluster-dns=$ClusterDNS -RedirectStandardError "$LogDirectory\kubelet.log" -NoNewWindow
+
+# Runs the kube-proxy with the user provided or default options
+Start-Process -FilePath "$KubeProxyExePath" -ArgumentList --proxy-mode=userspace, --hostname-override=$Hostname, --master=$APIServer, `
+--bind-address=$Hostname -RedirectStandardError "$LogDirectory\kube-proxy.log" -NoNewWindow 
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