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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 it is likely you will need to migrate to a different Azure container technology at some point. Whether that’s for financial or technical reasons, at some point, it will happen. Your solution has a life cycle and so does your platform configuration; if it is time to move on, then it’s time.

We have seen that Azure Functions itself is a very specific use case and it is unlikely you are looking for migration scenarios if you are using those. Azure App Services, on the other hand, is a big use case for migrations, but migrations are fairly simple as they are not really a container platform but more a platform that supports running containers.

Things get interesting when you are running ACI, Azure Container Apps, and AKS, because those are the real container platforms on Azure, and whichever use case is applicable for you, you might just have to migrate between them or use a combination of the two!