Book Image

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

Cloud Adventures webshop – scenario and design

As in the previous chapters, let’s continue and build on top of the scenario that we presented in the previous chapter. We have already repeated the use case several times, and to prevent too much repetition, we will only add the new requirements.

An e-commerce company called Cloud Adventures provides a webshop for its customers that allows them to buy Office 365 licenses. The solution consists of a frontend portal and a backend API that processes the billing. Additionally, the backend API allows direct access by the customer to automate billing processes and integrate with their existing CRM. Cloud Adventures has proven that it can run the solution and provide a reliable configuration on Microsoft Azure. Its customer base is growing and, even more importantly, it is adding customers of bigger enterprise sizes and a higher level of organizational maturity. These customers come with additional requirements; albeit technical...