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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 App Service – Running a Container Was Never That Difficult

If you are new to Microsoft Azure or have been using it for some time, you have probably come across Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering designed to run web applications, including websites and web APIs.

Back in 2017, Microsoft released Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers. App Service was already quite popular in the Windows world, but it now also supports Linux and containers! As the name suggests, at launch, it only supported Linux container images. In 2017, there were few use cases for Windows containers as the operating system still required some tweaks to be ready for containerization. Over the years, the popularity of Windows containers increased; now, you can run Windows container images too. Containers matured and so did the platforms supporting them.

If you investigate the available technologies with container support on Microsoft Azure...