Containers are the most talked-about technologies these days. Corporations are talking about containers rather than virtual machines and want to see them in almost all their solutions. The solutions could be microservices, serverless functions, web applications, web APIs, or just about anything.
In this chapter, we will delve into most of the Azure features that are to do with containers, including the following:
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Containers on virtual machines
- Azure Container Registry
- Azure Container Instance
- Web apps for containers
- Hosting images on Docker Hub
We will not go into the details and fundamentals of containers, and will concentrate more on Azure-specific container services.
Every container needs an image as a starting point. An image can be created using a Dockerfile or can be downloaded from a container registry...
