Azure Container Services are a new variant of the classical Azure IaaS offer from Azure (descripted in the first section of this chapter), and they also use virtual machines as the technological base.
Two versions of the Azure IaaS are offered, and both are based on virtual machines, but Azure Container Services has some advantages over the older solution due to its additional functionality.
I will now take a closer look at these advantages and introduce Azure Container Services in detail.
An Azure Container Service helps you to create, configure, or manage a cluster of VMs. These clusters are preconfigured to run applications in so-called containers.
OK; this is a complete answer, but we should nevertheless take a deeper look.
Let's start with a comparison between the two Azure IaaS offers. The following diagram shows you the classic Azure IaaS offer, or in other words, Windows or Linux VMs on Azure:
As you can see, the offer...