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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

Summary

We ended the previous chapter with “What does Azure Container Apps bring to the table and does it match up with what Azure Container Instances are capable of?”. To answer that question: we think it can!

Azure Container Apps is a technology designed to make more complex infrastructures such as Kubernetes easier. As we have mentioned, AKS is the technology powering this, but the complexity is abstracted away by providing a layer on top of it: Azure Container Apps.

We have seen Azure Container Apps holds great promise for the future and will become a go-to platform for developers to get started building containerized solutions. As Azure Container Apps comes with out-of-the-box configurations for KEDA, Dapr, and Envoy (Ingress), it demands best practices to be used in code. This is a good thing.

In our pros and cons, we have seen and can easily conclude that the pros are already very good and the cons might be taken away when Azure Container Apps hits GA...