Azure Containers Explained: Leverage Azure container technologies for effective application migration and deployment

Apply scenario-based learning to effectively handle the technical and business impact of various services like AKS, ACI, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps on Azure

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Key Features

• Understand the what, why, and how of different container technologies available on Microsoft Azure
• Explore the practical implementation of various Azure container technologies with the help of use cases
• Learn common business strategies for selecting the right Azure container technology at optimized cost

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Make the best-suited architectural choices to meet your business and application needs
• Understand the migration paths between different Azure Container services
• Deploy containerized applications on Azure to multiple technologies
• Know when to use Azure Container Apps versus Azure Kubernetes Service
• Find out how to add features to an AKS cluster
• Investigate the containers on Azure Web apps and Functions apps
• Discover ways to improve your current architecture without starting again
• Explore the financial implications of using Azure container services

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud and DevOps architects, application developers, technical leaders, decision makers, and IT professionals working with Microsoft Azure and cloud native technologies, especially containers. Reasonable knowledge of containers and a solid understanding of Microsoft Azure will help you grasp the concepts in this book.

Table of Contents

1. Azure Containers – Pleased to Meet You
2. Azure App Service – Running a Container Was Never That Difficult
3. Deploying Containers to Azure Functions
4. Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers
5. Azure Container Apps for Serverless Kubernetes
6. Azure Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud
7. The Single Container Use Case
8. Deciding the Best Fitting Azure Technologies for Multiple Containers
9. Container Technologies for Startups
10. Container Technologies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
11. Container Technologies for Enterprises
12. Migrating Between Container Technologies
13. Azure Container Instances – I Like the Scalability, But I Need More

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Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family.

Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies – you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.