Exploring Microsoft’s AKS

To experiment with Microsoft’s container-related offerings in Azure, we need an account on Azure. You can create a trial account or use an existing account. You can get a free trial account here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

Microsoft offers different container-related services on Azure. The easiest one to use is probably Azure Container Instances, which promises the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines (VMs) and without having to adopt a higher-level service. This service is only really useful if you want to run a single container in a hosted environment. The setup is quite easy. In the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), you first create a new resource group and then create an Azure container instance. You only need to fill out a short form with properties such as the name of the container, the image to use, and the port to open. The container can be made...