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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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Containers are one of the best ways to run and host your application in a platform-agnostic way. When an application is containerized, you can start it on any machine that supports running containers. It’s also one of the prerequisites for running services running technologies such as Kubernetes. The common thing for all containerization technologies is a container registry. Let’s quickly characterize it.
To create a container, you need a container image. A container image is a package that can be used to create an instance of an application and host it on a platform of choice. The difference between images and containers is crucial to understanding what we’re going to cover in this chapter: