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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 Containers – Pleased to Meet You

Whether you have been working with containers for years, are just getting started, or are just interested in what they have to offer in Azure, then this book is for you.

Microsoft Azure gives you a variety of options when it comes to using containers, each with its own traits, benefits, and challenges. When reading this chapter, you will get a refresher on containers and their benefits, what technologies are available to run them on Microsoft Azure, and finally, what use cases are the best fit for these different platforms. This chapter is a primer for the chapters to come and should provide you with enough background information to follow the in-depth discussion of these technologies later on.

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

  • Understanding containers and their benefits
  • Getting to know containers in the Azure landscape
  • Exploring technologies and use cases