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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 AKS

Before we start deploying the actual AKS resources, we need that place for our cluster to live again. Let’s create a resource group using the following command:

az group create `
  --name rg-aks `
  --location westeurope

Once the resource group is created, we should see similar output to that shown in Figure 6.2, stating that the provisioning of our resource group succeeded.

Figure 6.2 – Resource group creation

Figure 6.2 – Resource group creation

Now that we have verified that the resource group is there, let’s create an AKS cluster! For this, we will be using only a few parameters. However, please note that when you want to add more features and go all out, the set of parameters may grow significantly:

az aks create `
--location westeurope `
--resource-group rg-aks `
--name aks `
--generate-ssh-keys

This command will create an AKS cluster in the westeurope region in your designated resource group. The cluster...