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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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In Chapter 3, we discussed how you can host your application using Azure App Service. To run our application there, we needed to deploy a package containing the binaries of our service, choose one of the deployment methods, and prepare the correct configuration. Such a hosting model works best if you don’t need to worry about portability or vendor lock or just want to have an application up and running quickly. However, if you need to be prepared for changes such as a change of cloud vendor or hosting platform, it’s best if you containerize your application first.
Fortunately, Azure App Service supports hosting containerized applications with minimal changes to the rest of the functionalities. If you have an existing application hosted as an Azure web app, you can migrate it to containers while keeping the rest of the infrastructure intact.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics: