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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

Azure Kubernetes Service – The Next Steps

We ended the previous chapter by stating that we can do things more efficiently on Azure Kubernetes Service and that is true! Even though we have stressed the complexity of Kubernetes throughout this book, that complexity also gives us a lot of freedom.

Many companies and open source initiatives have invested time and money into building solutions, add-ons, and services on top of Kubernetes. A lot of them have even been adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://cncf.io), indicating that they are not only promising but also actively maintained.

But it’s not only third-party solutions that add value to Kubernetes. In fact, if you look at the Microsoft offering, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), they have added a lot of plugins to integrate and interact with other Azure technologies, making life even easier. And that is the investment Microsoft has made over the past couple of years: making the managing and maintaining...