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Azure Containers Explained

By : Wesley Haakman, Richard Hooper
Book Image

Azure Containers Explained

By: Wesley Haakman, Richard Hooper

Overview of this book

Whether you’re working with a start-up or an enterprise, making decisions related to using different container technologies on Azure has a notable impact your app migration and modernization strategies. This is where companies face challenges, while choosing the right solutions and deciding when to move on to the next technology. Azure Containers Explained helps you make the right architectural choices for your solutions and get well-versed with the migration path to other platforms using practical examples. You’ll begin with a recap of containers as technology and where you can store them within Azure. Next, you’ll explore the different Microsoft Azure container technologies and understand how each platform, namely Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Functions, and Azure App Services, work – you’ll learn to implement them by grasping their respective characteristics and use cases. Finally, you’ll build upon your own container solution on Azure using best practices from real-world examples and successfully transform your business from a start-up to a full-fledged enterprise. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to effectively cater to your business and application needs by selecting and modernizing your apps using various Microsoft Azure container services.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies
8
Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology
14
Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond

Container Technologies for Startups

We’ve seen single container deployments and multiple container deployments, and now it’s time to bring containers to the real world. You’re a start-up, starting from scratch, and you are building a solution on container technology. What should you do?

In the previous chapters, we have gone through the technical side of decision-making. Whether you are coming from a greenfield scenario or a scenario where you have to migrate and refactor existing code, there is always a scenario for you.

But now you’re a start-up. You have some plans (usually including a business plan) and somewhat of a technical direction that you want to move in. So let’s say that the technical direction is containers. In such a case, it’s time to take a look at real-world implementations.

You could argue “Does it matter if I’m a start-up or a medium to small business?” Yes, it does matter. There are considerable...