The Azure stack offers multiple ways to host web applications, varying from simple Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings such as VMs to completely managed PaaS hosting services such as App Services. Because of the platform-agnostic nature of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, even Linux containers and container orchestration services such as Kubernetes are available options.
Azure compute offers can be categorized according the separation of responsibilities in three main categories, namely IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS, as shown in the following diagram:
Besides IaaS and PaaS, there are various hosting options, each with their own advantages and use cases. We will now take a closer at these offerings.
