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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 Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud

Initially, Microsoft started with Azure Container Service (ACS). ACS allows you to pick which container orchestrator you would like from Mesos, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. As time went along, it became clear that Kubernetes had won the container orchestrator wars and Microsoft decided to go all in on Kubernetes. On October 26, 2017, Azure Kubernetes Service went Generally Available (GA), and since then, the product has grown along with the Kubernetes community.

Throughout this chapter, we will help you understand how Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) works, build a solution based on a use case, and see whether it brings to the table what it promises.

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

  • Understanding how AKS works
  • Deploying containers to AKS
  • The pros and cons of running containers on AKS