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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

Deploying containers to Azure Container Apps

Time to see whether we can help our product manager out. Can we get our billing statements API up and running in Azure Container Apps?

As this is a preview feature, the commands we need are not yet included in the Azure CLI tools. For that, we need to add the containerapp extension. We can do that using the following command:

az extension add –name containerapp

Important note

If you are using Cloud Shell through the Azure portal, it is not necessarily required to add the az extension up front. If it is not installed, Cloud Shell will prompt you and ask whether you want to install the required extension when you try to deploy a container app for the first time.

Before we can actually deploy a new Azure Container Apps app, we need to register the Resource Provider in our subscription. Normally, we are not required to do this, but it is common with preview features. We are simply telling Microsoft Azure “Well hello...