Chapter 9: Container Virtualization in Azure
In Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud, we started our journey in Azure with the creation of our first workload in Azure: the deployment of a Linux VM. After that, we covered many aspects of the Linux operating system.
In Chapter 7, Deploying Your Virtual Machines, we explored several options to deploy your VMs, and Chapter 8, Exploring Continuous Configuration Automation, was all about what to do afterward in terms of configuration management using orchestration tooling.
Orchestration is a growing part of a movement called DevOps. DevOps is about breaking down the classic silos in an organization. The different teams involved in developing, testing, and deploying products must communicate and work together. DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools. And DevOps is a way to make deployments incremental, frequent, and routine events while constraining the impact of failure.
VMs are not...