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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

Pros and cons of running containers on Azure Container Apps

We have seen that it is relatively easy to get started with a single container on Azure Container Apps. But of course, there are both pros and cons to using Azure Container Apps. Some of these will be explored in depth in Part 2 of this book, and some we have already discussed throughout this chapter.

Pros

Let’s start with some benefits that Azure Container Apps bring, and, surely, they are good.

Speed

Azure Container Apps is fast! Going from zero to an environment with a container running inside of it takes less than a couple of minutes and merely a few commands. If Azure Container Apps is not your production platform, it is definitely a platform to use for testing the functionality of your container in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Microservices

Yes, microservices. The way Azure Container Apps is designed, the way we can isolate environments but also have multiple containers in a single environment...