Summary

This chapter was all about containers—building container images and running containers from those images. With the fundamentals of containers covered, you looked at how ACR can help with the storage and maintenance of container images, followed by running containers within ACI. One of the newest editions to Azure in the containers space, and the newest edition to the AZ-204 exam, is ACA. The core features and functionality of ACA were covered, as well as the hierarchy, some nice automation making use of Docker Compose, ingress settings, health probes, and secret use. Having microservices that can be independently built, deployed, and scaled can be extremely valuable in modern applications, and ACA can be a great service to empower this pattern.

The next chapter introduces Azure Functions and what it does, as well as how it compares to other services. Scaling and hosting options will also be covered. Then, you’ll explore developing Azure Functions, triggers...