Go Serverless on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Functions

Are you ready? We are about to turn the page on Microsoft Azure – but only after we take the final step of transitioning our application to Serverless architecture. Like we did on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, in the last two chapters, we worked hard to implement our solution on Microsoft Azure using virtual machines (VMs) and then containers.

We’ve taken time to do some comparisons between how things work on AWS and Microsoft Azure to help us understand the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle differences between the cloud platforms.

We’ve noticed that while our Terraform code has been changing pretty consistently between cloud platforms, our application code and the operating system configuration – either in Packer or Docker – haven’t. As we take our final step with Microsoft Azure, we’ll be going through a similar process to what we went through...