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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Containers – the concept and basics


Containers are a mechanism to run software reliably even when moving them from one computer environment to another. The open sources project Docker in Linux has provided such a service for some years now. It containerizes the application and its dependencies (OS and underlying infrastructure) and abstracts the interaction between each; they isolate applications from each other but use a shared OS. This idea works based on the microservice design of services, because it performs as a service that is independent, flexible, and scalable by default, using predefined APIs for communications:

The basic features of containers are as follows:

  • They are run-everywhere apps
  • They are developed on a microservice-style architecture
  • They enable a higher density of resources

The generic platform for running these containerized applications is Docker, which is available for the following:

  • Windows containers
  • Docker for Linux
  • Docker for Mac
  • Boot2Docker
  • VirtualBox

In this chapter, we...