Azure App Service – Running a Container Was Never That Difficult
If you are new to Microsoft Azure or have been using it for some time, you have probably come across Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering designed to run web applications, including websites and web APIs.
Back in 2017, Microsoft released Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers. App Service was already quite popular in the Windows world, but it now also supports Linux and containers! As the name suggests, at launch, it only supported Linux container images. In 2017, there were few use cases for Windows containers as the operating system still required some tweaks to be ready for containerization. Over the years, the popularity of Windows containers increased; now, you can run Windows container images too. Containers matured and so did the platforms supporting them.
If you investigate the available technologies with container support on Microsoft Azure...