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Azure Containers Explained

Azure Containers Explained

By : Wesley Haakman , Richard Hooper
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Azure Containers Explained

Azure Containers Explained

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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)
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Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies
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Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology
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Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond

Deploying containers to Azure Functions

Now that we understand the concepts of Azure Functions, let’s see whether we can get a container up and running. First, we need a Premium or Dedicated plan to host Azure Functions on. That plan needs to run in a resource group. Let’s create that first:

az group create `
--name "rg-functions-containers" `
--location "west europe"

Important note

Just like in the previous chapters, we used Azure Cloud Shell through the Azure portal to execute the Azure CLI commands.

Let’s verify whether the creation of the resource group was successful:

az group show --name "rg-functions-containers"

You should have a similar result as shown in Figure 3.1:

Figure 3.1 – Output of the az group show command

Figure 3.1 – Output of the az group show command

Now that we have the resource group, we can start deploying actual resources. For Azure Functions to work, we need storage. Luckily, Microsoft Azure provides...

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