Solution architecture use case

In the following sections, we will focus on a concrete use case (description follows). Our objective is to help you build a reference architecture, by using the map as your Azure compass to find the relevant options for a given business scenario.

Looking at a business scenario

Since we decided to zoom in a little more on containerization in this chapter, we will demonstrate one possible usage of containers in a workflow-like scenario.

For our example, we will consider the following requirements:

Contoso needs a configurable workflow tool that allows you to orchestrate multiple resource-intensive tasks. Each task must launch large datasets to perform in-memory calculations. For some reason, the datasets cannot be chunked into smaller pieces, which means that memory contention could quickly become an issue under a high load. A single task may take between a few minutes to an hour to complete. Workflows are completely unattended (no human interaction...