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Azure Containers Explained

Azure Containers Explained

By : Wesley Haakman , Richard Hooper
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Azure Containers Explained

Azure Containers Explained

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By: Wesley Haakman , Richard Hooper

Overview of this book

Whether you’re working with a start-up or an enterprise, making decisions related to using different container technologies on Azure has a notable impact your app migration and modernization strategies. This is where companies face challenges, while choosing the right solutions and deciding when to move on to the next technology. Azure Containers Explained helps you make the right architectural choices for your solutions and get well-versed with the migration path to other platforms using practical examples. You’ll begin with a recap of containers as technology and where you can store them within Azure. Next, you’ll explore the different Microsoft Azure container technologies and understand how each platform, namely Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Functions, and Azure App Services, work – you’ll learn to implement them by grasping their respective characteristics and use cases. Finally, you’ll build upon your own container solution on Azure using best practices from real-world examples and successfully transform your business from a start-up to a full-fledged enterprise. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to effectively cater to your business and application needs by selecting and modernizing your apps using various Microsoft Azure container services.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies
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Chapter 4: Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers
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Chapter 6: Azure Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud
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Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology
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Chapter 8: Deciding the Best Fitting Azure Technologies for Multiple Containers
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Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond
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Chapter 13: Azure Container Instances – I Like the Scalability But I Need More
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Chapter 14: Beyond Azure Container Apps
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Chapter 15: Azure Kubernetes Service – The Next Steps
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Chapter 16: What’s Next – Diving into Future Trends and More
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Learnings and future decisions

What we have learned is that customers demand change. Especially when you are growing as a company, your customers will change as well. You will attract bigger customers that have different requirements. And that is perfectly fine. It just means you need to adjust a little.

The biggest thing to learn here, however, is that out-of-the-box solutions such as Azure Container Apps (or ACI) provide great features when you are starting out. However, when requirements change and you need to adjust, these services are not as adjustable as you would like. AKS does come with more complexity – we will be the first people to admit that – but it also comes with great flexibility, and what we have seen is that if you start small and gradually move onward, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Yes, there is a learning curve, but dealing with that comes down to decision-making. If you decide that AKS is going to be your next option early in the...

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