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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide

You're reading from   Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Up-to-date information for organizations new to Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838986681
Length 162 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Azure for containerized apps

The first thing that you always run into when discussing containers is, why should I care about containers? This is usually answered in one of two ways. Firstly, containers provide the freedom to move your application from on-premise to the cloud or within the cloud to another cloud provider with no code change to your application. Secondly, each application is self-contained, meaning all application elements and their versions are contained within the boundaries of the container, so changing a library for an application won't negatively affect or spark a redeployment of all the applications that shared the library.

So, what are containers? I like to use a shoebox analogy to describe containers. A shoebox is pretty standardized and small. You can only fit so much in them, and they tend to have a single function like storing your photos. You can store this shoebox and move it around pretty easily. It does, however, require a shelf or floor...

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Published in: Jun 2020
Publisher: Packt
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