As you saw, when working with containers in Azure you are able to focus on the delivery and shape of your application rather than configuration or maintenance. Of course, available features are not limited to those we covered in this chapter—you can also leverage functionalities such as continuous deployment, networking, or data volumes. What is available depends solely on the service you choose—Azure Container Instances and Web App for Containers are cloud components that are quite minimalistic and focus on running an application, while AKS delivers more advanced features. Nonetheless, containers are one of the most popular topics of recent months and it is quite possible that building and evolving that skill will help you in your future projects.

In the next chapter, you will learn a bit about another service that allows you to run containerized applications...