Revisiting technologies
Over the course of the past chapters, we have discussed five different Azure container technologies:
- Containers for Azure Functions
- Containers on Azure App Services
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Kubernetes Service
First things first. All these technologies have different use cases for running containerized solutions on Microsoft Azure. However, we are going to completely forget about Azure Functions for now. As the use case for containers on Azure Functions is to overcome technical blockers on Azure Functions itself (for example, an unsupported runtime), it is rarely the go-to resource for initially deploying your containerized solution.
The same could be said for using Azure App Services but there is a little more to that. Let’s briefly revisit these technologies and their use cases.
Azure App Services
Containers can run on Azure App Services. They run very well and a single container deployment...