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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Docker/container services


In recent years, virtualization has ever been on the minds of IT administrators. Some companies have already embraced Linux Docker, its configuration, and design. With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced this new virtualization solution that does not rely on the theory that each VM be using its dedicated resources, including the operating system:

Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Docker-linux-interfaces.svg/800px-Docker-linux-interfaces.svg.png

Especially during the development of an application, there are different stages during the staging process. This solution provides an easy setup of different environments, consuming fewer resources. Docker containers share one operating system with dedicated, closed environments:

With Windows Server 2016, containers have been designed as follows. They are similar to Docker and are exchangeable:

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/media/containerfund...