You're reading from Azure Containers Explained Leverage Azure container technologies for effective application migration and deployment

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231051

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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PowerShell

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Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Wesley Haakman

Richard Hooper

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies

2. Chapter 1: Azure Containers – Pleased to Meet You FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Azure App Service – Running a Container Was Never That Difficult

4. Chapter 3: Deploying Containers to Azure Functions

5. Chapter 4: Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers

6. Chapter 5: Azure Container Apps for Serverless Kubernetes

7. Chapter 6: Azure Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud

8. Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology

9. Chapter 7: The Single Container Use Case

10. Chapter 8: Deciding the Best Fitting Azure Technologies for Multiple Containers

11. Chapter 9: Container Technologies for Startups

12. Chapter 10: Container Technologies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

13. Chapter 11: Container Technologies for Enterprises

14. Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond

15. Chapter 12: Migrating Between Container Technologies

16. Chapter 13: Azure Container Instances – I Like the Scalability But I Need More

17. Chapter 14: Beyond Azure Container Apps

18. Chapter 15: Azure Kubernetes Service – The Next Steps

19. Chapter 16: What’s Next – Diving into Future Trends and More

20. Index

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Something we have only briefly touched on throughout this book is Windows containers. The majority of containerized solutions are based on Linux and we don’t expect that to change any time soon. However, there are big use cases for Windows containers and one of them surprisingly is cost-based. Multiple technologies we have discussed before support Windows containers but they are not as feature-rich when it comes to Kubernetes. In April 2019, Kubernetes announced support for Windows containers. By attaching a Windows machine to the Kubernetes cluster, this machine would become a node that could run Windows 2019 container images. Soon after, Microsoft adopted this support in AKS. Initially, AKS provided only limited support for Windows containers, but the use case was there. We can now run .NET Framework solutions on AKS provided we provision a Windows 2019 node pool and build our containers on Windows 2019 images.

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