In this chapter, another way of deploying your workload in Azure was discussed. After an introduction into the history, ideas, and concepts of container virtualization, we went into some of the available options. Together with older implementations such as LXC, they are all great and rock solid implementations to host containers: systemd-nspawn, Rkt, and Docker
We not only saw how to run existing images, pulled from repositories, but also how to create your own image. Maybe the greatest news is that there is a tool called Buildah, which is able to create an image using the OCI standard of the Open Container Initiative that can be used for Docker, but also for Rkt.
The biggest part of this chapter was about Docker. This is by far the most widely implemented container solution today. And talking about implementations, there are really many methods to implement/deploy Docker...