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

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.

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