Different ways of hosting containerized applications
As already mentioned in the previous chapter, to host a containerized application using any kind of service provider, you will need a container registry. Once a registry is deployed, you can push your images there. This process can be easily visualized with the help of the following diagram:
Figure 3.1 – A high-level diagram of a container image life cycle
Once an image is available inside your registry, it can be used by any kind of container platform available on the market, assuming it can authenticate with Authentication Context Class Reference (ACR). If we consider Azure only, there are several ways to run an application using its container image:
- Using ACR Tasks
- Running an image using Azure Container Instances (to be discussed in Chapter 4, Using Azure Container Instances for Ad Hoc Application Hosting)
- Deploying a virtual machine with support for running containers and running...
