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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 Container Instances for Serverless Containers

It was July 2017; serverless technologies were upcoming, and with the ever-growing popularity of containers, Microsoft couldn’t stay behind and released Azure Container Instances (ACI). Its promise is simplicity and no infrastructure management.

Over the years, the popularity of ACI has increased, and a lot has changed since its initial release date. ACI has become a valuable addition to the world of serverless and event-driven architectures. By integrating with numerous Microsoft Azure technologies such as Logic Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Storage to name a few, the use cases are almost endless.

We see machine learning (ML) solutions, batch processing, and APIs being deployed to ACI. The promise of simplicity resulted in a technology where we merely need a few commands to get things up and running.

Throughout this chapter, we will help you understand how ACI works, build a solution based on a use case...