Microsoft Azure container service architecture
Azure is one of the fastest growing infrastructure services in the market today. It supports scale-on-demand and the ability to create hybrid environments, and big data with the help of Azure Cloud Services. The Azure Container Service provides deployment of open source container clustering and orchestrating solutions. With the help of the Azure Container Service, we can deploy DC/OS (Marathon), Kubernetes, and Swarm based container clusters. The Azure portal provides a simple UI and CLI support to achieve this deployment.
Microsoft Azure is officially the first public cloud to support mainstream container orchestration engines. Even the Azure Container Service engine is open sourced on GitHub (https://github.com/Azure/acs-engine).
This step enables developers to understand the architecture and run multiple orchestration engines directly on the vSphere Hypervisor, KVM, or HyperV. The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates provide the basis of...