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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

Selecting the right Microsoft Azure technology

So far, we have seen that there is more than just a technical decision to be made and that there is always a business and financial component to it. Let’s take a look at a new use case.

You work for a company that provides an e-commerce solution. Customers come to you when they need anything in the form of a web shop. Among other features, the e-commerce solution allows the end user to order items, perform payments, view their order history, and review items they have purchased previously. The solution is single-tenant, which means a separate instance or a combination of resources is deployed for each customer. Technically, the solution is monolithic and runs on Internet Information Services (IIS) on virtual machines (VMs). The current runtime is .NET Framework 4.8. Migrating to a more modern runtime is on the roadmap but is currently not a top priority.

Recently, customers have been asking for a connection between the e...