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Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure offers numerous solutions that can shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face lies in implementing these solutions. </p><p>Implementing Azure Solutions helps you overcome this challenge by enabling you to implement Azure Solutions effectively. The book begins by guiding you in choosing the backend structure for your solutions. You will then work with the Azure toolkit and learn how to use Azure Managed Apps to share your solutions with the Azure service catalog. The book then focuses on various implementation techniques and best practices such as implementing Azure Cloud Services by configuring, deploying, and managing cloud services. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to work with Azure-managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Services. </p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The concept of container orchestration

Regarding this technology, we need an orchestration tool to provide this feature set. There are some well-known container orchestration tools available on the market, such as the following:

  • Docker swarm
  • DC/OS
  • Kubernetes

Kubernetes is the most-used one, and therefore could be deployed as a service in most public cloud services, such as in Azure. In general, it provides the following features:

  • Automated container placement: On the container hosts, to best spread the load between them
  • Self-healing: For failed containers, restarting them in a proper way
  • Horizontal scaling: Automated horizontal scaling (up and down) based on the existing load
  • Service discovery and load balancing: By providing IP-addresses to containers and managing DNS registrations
  • Rollout and rollback: Automated rollout and rollback for containers, which provides another self-healing feature as updated containers that are newly rolled-out are just rolled back...