Azure containers explained : leverage Azure container technologies for effective application migration and deployment / Wesley Haakman, Richard Hooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haakman, Wesley, author.

Hooper, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Azure (Computing platform).

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing, [2023]

Biography/History:

Haakman Wesley: Wesley Haakman lives in the Netherlands and has worked with Microsoft Azure for over 8 years. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and works as the head of DevOps at Intercept, a cloud service provider company in the Netherlands. Wesley has worked in IT for more than 18 years, starting his career as an IT support technician for Novell NetWare and SUSE Linux environments. Now, he primarily focuses on using Microsoft Azure for building and helping DevOps teams to add value for their customers. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys writing his own blog, as well as providing sessions for events and user groups. Outside of tech, he loves mountain biking and spends a fair amount of time with his family. Hooper Richard: Richard Hooper, also known as Pixel Robots online, lives in Newcastle, England. He is a Microsoft MVP and an architect for Azure at Intercept, which is based in the Netherlands. He has about 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for his whole career, but he has also dabbled in Linux. Richard has a passion for learning about new technologies you can check that out on his blog, Pixel Robots. He is very enthusiastic about the cloud-native space on Azure. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing knowledge and helping people with whatever technology he has hands-on experience with and is passionate about via his blog posts, podcasts, videos, and more.

Summary:

Apply scenario-based learning to effectively handle the technical and business impact of various services like AKS, ACI, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps on Azure Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Understand the what, why, and how of different container technologies available on Microsoft Azure Explore the practical implementation of various Azure container technologies with the help of use cases Learn common business strategies for selecting the right Azure container technology at optimized cost Book Description Whether you're working with a start-up or an enterprise, making decisions related to using different container technologies on Azure has a notable impact your app migration and modernization strategies. This is where companies face challenges, while choosing the right solutions and deciding when to move on to the next technology. Azure Containers Explained helps you make the right architectural choices for your solutions and get well-versed with the migration path to other platforms using practical examples. You'll begin with a recap of containers as technology and where you can store them within Azure. Next, you'll explore the different Microsoft Azure container technologies and understand how each platform, namely Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Functions, and Azure App Services, work - you'll learn to implement them by grasping their respective characteristics and use cases. Finally, you'll build upon your own container solution on Azure using best practices from real-world examples and successfully transform your business from a start-up to a full-fledged enterprise. By the end of this book, you'll be able to effectively cater to your business and application needs by selecting and modernizing your apps using various Microsoft Azure container services. What you will learn Make the best-suited architectural choices to meet your business and application needs Understand the migration paths between different Azure Container services Deploy containerized applications on Azure to multiple technologies Know when to use Azure Container Apps versus Azure Kubernetes Service Find out how to add features to an AKS cluster Investigate the containers on Azure Web apps and Functions apps Discover ways to improve your current architecture without starting again Explore the financial implications of using Azure container services Who this book is for This book is for cloud and DevOps architects, application developers, technical leaders, decision makers, and IT professionals working with Microsoft Azure and cloud native technologies, especially containers. Reasonable knowledge of containers and a solid understanding of Microsoft Azure will help you grasp the concepts in this book.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright and credits

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Understanding Azure Container Technologies

Chapter 1: Azure Containers - Pleased to Meet You

Understanding containers and their benefits

Container characteristics

Container benefits

Getting to know containers in the Azure landscape

Exploring technologies and use cases

Azure App Service for containers

Azure Functions for containers

Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Apps

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Container Registry

Summary

Chapter 2: Azure App Service - Running a Container Was Never That Difficult

Understanding Azure App Service for Containers

Deploying containers to Azure App Service

Seeing it in action

The pros and cons of deploying containers on Azure App Service

Pros

Cons

Chapter 3: Deploying Containers to Azure Functions

Understanding Azure Functions for containers

Deploying containers to Azure Functions

Docker containers for Azure Functions

Pros and cons of deploying containers to Azure Functions

Chapter 4: Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers

Understanding ACI

Container groups

Networking

Bursting from Azure Kubernetes Service

Deploying containers in ACI

ACI and YAML

The pros and cons of running containers on ACI

Chapter 5: Azure Container Apps for Serverless Kubernetes

Understanding Azure Container Apps

Environments

Revisions

Containers

Deploying containers to Azure Container Apps

Pros and cons of running containers on Azure Container Apps

Chapter 6: Azure Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes in the Cloud

Understanding how AKS works

Control plane

Nodes and node pools

Versioning.

Deploying containers to AKS

The pros and cons of running containers on AKS

Part 2: Choosing and Applying the Right Technology

Chapter 7: The Single Container Use Case

Scenarios and types of solutions

Building a new solution - starting small

You're migrating to a container-based infrastructure

You are extending your current solution to use a container

Selecting the right Microsoft Azure technology

Security

Runtime

State

Usage and scalability

Decisions, decisions, decisions

Decisions and the future of your solution

There are plans to develop another API

The roadmap dictates Azure App Service is the way to go

The roadmap dictates everything will run in containers

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

Multiple container scenarios and their solutions

Migration of the tightly coupled solution

Decoupling a solution

The Windows and Linux mix

Deploying the right Microsoft Azure technologies

Tightly coupled

Loosely coupled

Chapter 9: Container Technologies for Startups

A common start-up scenario and solution design

Choosing the right technology

Visualizing a design

Deploying and implementing the solution

Deploying the resource group and networking

Deploying the customer's container app environment

Deploying and testing the containers

Learnings and future decisions

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

Cloud Adventures web shop - scenario and design

Creating the AKS cluster

Isolating customers

Setting up Ingress

Deploying the application

Configuring Azure Front Door

Testing the websites.

Learnings and future decisions

Chapter 11: Container Technologies for Enterprises

Cloud Adventures webshop - scenario and design

The new requirements

Enabling Azure Monitor/Container insights

Enabling a managed identity

Enabling Azure AD authentication and RBAC

Enabling the Key Vault Container Storage Interface

Part 3: Migrating Between Technologies and Beyond

Chapter 12: Migrating Between Container Technologies

Revisiting technologies

Azure App Services

Investigating use cases for migrating between technologies

Customer requirements and features

Money, money, money

Deprecation

New technologies

Allocating time for innovation

Exploring migration paths

Azure App Services to "anything"

ACI to Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps to AKS

AKS

Chapter 13: Azure Container Instances - I Like the Scalability But I Need More

ACI and the use case

The constraints of ACI

Motivations for migrating to a different technology

The next technology

Translating features from ACI to ACA

ACI configuration for the original use case

ACA configuration for an extended use case

Chapter 14: Beyond Azure Container Apps

ACA and its use case

Constraints of ACA

AKS configuration

Basic knowledge requirements

Translating the features from ACA to AKS

ACA configuration for the original use case

Azure Kubernetes configuration for an extended use case

Chapter 15: Azure Kubernetes Service - The Next Steps

AKS and our use case

Scalable deployments.

Creating a Helm chart

Deploying the Helm chart

Automatic scaling

Scaling the nodes

Scaling Pods

Windows containers on AKS

Use cases

Chapter 16: What's Next - Diving into Future Trends and More

Future trends

Machine learning and AI

Cloud-native development

Multi-cloud

GitOps

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

The future of AKS

eBPF

Fleet

Draft v2

Wasm

Azure and Kubernetes certifications

AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781803236018

1803236019

OCLC:

1370493141