Where is Azure in all this?
This book is focused primarily on functionality provided natively inside the Windows Server operating system, most often utilized on-premise. Our chapter on containers has obviously followed suit. Containers are part of a cloud-first mentality, and there is certainly much to learn on the topic of utilizing Windows containers inside Azure, rather than on classic servers. While this is not our core focus, here is some information regarding ways that containers intersect with Azure.
Azure Container Registry
Earlier in this chapter, we took a look at Docker Hub and pulled some container images from the Microsoft Container Registry. Both of these systems are live and ready to use, but they may be too public-facing for your enterprise’s taste. A third option that may be more appropriate when working with containers hosted in Azure is another container registry, useful for the private storage of container images, Azure Container Registry.
