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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

The Single Container Use Case

In the first part of this book, we covered the different technologies you can use to run containers on Microsoft Azure. There, we provided a brief introduction to those technologies. Now, it is time to look at the different use cases when you have just one container to run.

As we have pointed out multiple times, whether a technology is the right fit for you depends on your use case. If you match the right technology with the right use case, success awaits you. In this chapter, we will dive into different use cases and see which technology would be the best fit from a technical and business perspective. Yes, also from a business perspective. In the end, everything you do as an IT professional aims to add value to your company and its customers. If a technology does not provide any added business value, why even bother?

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Scenarios and types of solutions
  • Selecting the right Microsoft Azure...