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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

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...

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