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Azure Containers Explained
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As with any technology and as we have seen in Chapter 2, every technology has its pros and cons.
From this chapter, you might be aware it takes quite a few steps to containerize a solution for Azure function apps. We have also learned that Azure Functions are not the technology you would initially select as the primary choice for running a container. The use case works the other way around. You are using Azure Functions but now you need to run a solution with non-standard runtimes or dependencies. If we stick to that use case, it is an acceptable solution for running containers. Let’s take a look at those pros and cons.
There are definitely a couple of reasons to use containers for Azure Functions.
This is exactly the use case we described in the previous paragraphs. Your product manager confronts you with a piece of code...