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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

By: Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Whether you are trying to re-architect a legacy app or build a cloud-ready app from scratch, using the Azure ecosystem with .NET and Java technologies helps you to strategize and plan your app modernization process effectively. With this book, you’ll learn how to modernize your applications by using Azure for containerization, DevOps, microservices, and serverless solutions to reduce development time and costs, while also making your applications robust, secure, and scalable. You will delve into improving application efficiency by using container services such as Azure Container Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and more. Next, you will learn to modernize your application by implementing DevOps throughout your application development life cycle. You will then focus on increasing the scalability and performance of your overall application with microservices, before learning how to add extra functionality to your application with Azure serverless solutions. Finally, you’ll get up to speed with monitoring and troubleshooting techniques. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use the Azure ecosystem to refactor, re-architect, and rebuild your web, mobile, and desktop applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Planning Application Modernization
4
Implementing Containerization and DevOps in a Development Cycle
8
Building a Web and Microservices Architecture on Azure
12
Going Serverless and Deploying to the Cloud
17
Planning for Security, Availability, and Monitoring

Understanding the Docker ecosystem in Azure

In January 2015, Microsoft added Docker to the Azure Marketplace, which was a major milestone for Microsoft when it came to integrating containers ecosystems with commercial Azure Cloud. It's been almost 5 years since then and container ecosystems have evolved massively, with support for all the major container engines and container orchestration across a variety of offerings for different business and technological needs.

In this section, we'll list and discuss the various options we have when it comes to running Docker containers in Azure:

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Web Apps for Containers
  • Docker Enterprise Engine
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • OpenShift on Azure
  • Docker on Azure IaaS
  • Azure Batch

Azure Container...