Containers
With cloud containers, you can easily develop containerized applications, updating them
as needed and managing them much faster using CI/CD and developer tools. With
Azure CLI or using Visual Studio’s point-and-click publishing feature, you can scaffold
your applications and scaffold them automatically and deploy them to an AKS cluster.
Docker containers can be built and debugged, and then iterated over several running
containers. Visual Studio or Studio Code can be used to gain insight into the build
processes offered by Docker and containers can be integrated into your DevOps and
agile workflows seamlessly using Visual Studio Team Services and DevOps Project.
“Lift and shift” is simple with Azure; your existing applications can easily be shifted to
containers and deployed across Azure Stack, Azure, or across your own data center ad
you can easily set up a unified, flexible approach to building applications that can run
on-site or in the cloud.
Using Container Registry you can manage a Docker private registry as one of your first-
class resources on Azure and use CLI tools to manage your container images. Get run-
time protection, scan for vulnerabilities, and full compliance using a choice of tools and
use Azure Directory for single sign-on.
Lastly, use a compute service that suits you to scale your containers and orchestrate
them – AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), App Service or Service Fabric.
Azure Container Categories:
- AKS – use Kubernetes to scale and orchestrate your Linux containers
- Azure App Service – use Linux containers in a PaaS environment to deploy
your APIs or web apps - Azure Container Instances – can help you to burst elastically from your AKS
cluster - Azure Batch – use containers to run compute jobs that are repetitive and time-
consuming - Azure Service Fabric – easily lift and shift your .NET applications to
microservices with Windows Server containers. - Azure Container Registry - regardless of Azure deployment, you can store
your container images and manage them easily.