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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned that we can build upon an existing AKS cluster and add features without having to redeploy the environment. We have also learned that enterprise customers require more from you – not because they are annoying, but because the bigger the customer, the bigger the impact once things go south. We want to mitigate those risks but also provide a platform that is operable by our Ops teams.

With the Azure Monitoring plugin for Container insights, we have also seen that it is quite easy and effortless to configure monitoring for your containers. It is a no-brainer to configure but often left out.

Everything in this chapter is focused on two things:

  • Providing the features and configuration your customers require
  • Lowering the overhead and maintenance for your Ops teams

We have been focusing on the first bullet. But if you were to replace the use case and focus on lowering effort and management from your Ops team, almost...