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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 Apps for Serverless Kubernetes

At Microsoft Ignite in November of 2021, Microsoft announced a brand-new technology: Azure Container Apps, a fully serverless, application-centric hosting offering, meaning you do not have to worry about any underlying virtual machines, orchestrators, or other cloud infrastructure.

Throughout this chapter, we will help you understand how Azure Container Apps work, how to deploy a solution based on our well-known use case, and finally, see whether it brings to the table what is promised.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding Azure Container Apps
  • Deploying containers to Azure Container Apps
  • Pros and cons of running containers on Azure Container Apps