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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 Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

As a start-up, your goal is to build a minimum viable product, refine it, and make sure you can go to market as fast as possible. You usually don’t have that many requirements from a customer. During the start-up phase of a business in the software industry, the focus is mainly on functionality.

But then you start becoming more successful; you’re growing, you’re scaling up, and soon you will be a small- or medium-sized business. Congratulations! However, this means you have a solid customer base and you have been servicing those customers for some time now. And, as it normally goes, customers want things from you! This can be a functionality that you are most likely already keeping track of, or something else. And that something else is usually what a lot of start-ups neglect, as the financial overhead or the investment is simply not worth it yet. We’re talking about governance and security...