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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

Deploying and implementing the solution

It’s time to deploy the solution. What we need is the following:

  • AKS
  • Two containers (the frontend and billing API)
  • Isolation per customer (single tenancy)
  • Environment variables (the billing API address, billing API key, and Azure SQL connection string)
  • Virtual network integration with databases
  • Front Door with a web application firewall

Let’s start off by creating the needed resources for the AKS cluster and the cluster itself.

Creating the AKS cluster

As always, we need to start off with a resource group. Let’s create one using the following command:

az group create `
  --name rg-aks-smb `
  --location westeurope

Once this command has been completed, you should see some output similar to Figure 10.2.

Figure 10.2 – Resource group creation completed

Figure 10.2 – Resource group creation completed

With the resource group created, we can now start with the actual resource...