Chapter 9: Container Virtualization in Azure

1. You can use containers for packaging and distributing your applications, which can be platform-independent. Containers remove the need for virtual machine and operating system management and help you achieve high availability and scalability.
2. Containers are not suitable if you have a huge monolithic application that requires all the resources of the underlying virtual machines.
3. Linux containers (LXCs) are an optimal solution that can be provisioned in Azure.
4. Tools such as Buildah make it possible to create virtual machines that can be used in every solution. Rkt (pronounced "rocket") also supports the Docker format. The Open Container Initiative is working very hard to create standards to make the creation of virtual machines even easier.
5. You can develop everything in Azure or you can develop locally and then push to a remote environment.
6. It's container platform–agnostic, and the Buildah tool...