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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

Revisiting technologies

Over the course of the past chapters, we have discussed five different Azure container technologies:

  • Containers for Azure Functions
  • Containers on Azure App Services
  • Azure Container Instances
  • Azure Container Apps
  • Azure Kubernetes Service

First things first. All these technologies have different use cases for running containerized solutions on Microsoft Azure. However, we are going to completely forget about Azure Functions for now. As the use case for containers on Azure Functions is to overcome technical blockers on Azure Functions itself (for example, an unsupported runtime), it is rarely the go-to resource for initially deploying your containerized solution.

The same could be said for using Azure App Services but there is a little more to that. Let’s briefly revisit these technologies and their use cases.

Azure App Services

Containers can run on Azure App Services. They run very well and a single container deployment...