To play with Microsoft's container-related offerings in Azure, we need an account on Azure. You can create a trial account or use an existing account. Get your trial account here at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
Microsoft offers different container-related services on Azure. Probably the easiest one to use is the Azure Container Instances, which promises the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines and without having to adopt a higher-level service. This service is only really useful if you want to run a single container in a hosted environment. The set up is quite easy. In the Azure portal (portal.azure.com), first create a new resource group and then create an Azure container instance. You only need to fill out a short form with properties such...
