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Azure Containers Explained

You're reading from   Azure Containers Explained Leverage Azure container technologies for effective application migration and deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231051
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wesley Haakman Wesley Haakman
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Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies
2. Chapter 1: Azure Containers – Pleased to Meet You FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Azure App Service – Running a Container Was Never That Difficult 4. Chapter 3: Deploying Containers to Azure Functions 5. Chapter 4: Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers 6. Chapter 5: Azure Container Apps for Serverless Kubernetes 7. Chapter 6: Azure Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud 8. Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology
9. Chapter 7: The Single Container Use Case 10. Chapter 8: Deciding the Best Fitting Azure Technologies for Multiple Containers 11. Chapter 9: Container Technologies for Startups 12. Chapter 10: Container Technologies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses 13. Chapter 11: Container Technologies for Enterprises 14. Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond
15. Chapter 12: Migrating Between Container Technologies 16. Chapter 13: Azure Container Instances – I Like the Scalability But I Need More 17. Chapter 14: Beyond Azure Container Apps 18. Chapter 15: Azure Kubernetes Service – The Next Steps 19. Chapter 16: What’s Next – Diving into Future Trends and More 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automatic scaling

Hopefully, we have allocated the correct capacity to our AKS cluster to make sure daily operations run smoothly. However, customer demand can change and if our business is running well, we are also adding customers. Ideally, we automatically allocate resources to our cluster once these demands change.

Before we can enable technologies that allow for automatic scaling, it is imperative that we understand how much capacity is needed to initially run our resources. For example, if we are unaware of how much we actually need, we may be presented with an invoice at the end of the month that we didn’t expect. In order to prevent that, we can set limitations to our autoscaling, but that also means that at some point, the environment will no longer scale and it will impact the customer experience. The more we know about the behavior and capacity requirements of our solution, the better we can configure autoscaling.

When we talk about scaling, we are mainly talking...

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