May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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What is an Azure Container Service?
An Azure Container Service helps you to create, configure, or manage a cluster of VMs. These clusters are preconfigured to run applications in so-called containers.
Ok, this is a complete answer, but we should nevertheless, take a deeper look.
Let's start with a comparison between the two Azure IaaS offers.
The following diagram shows you the classic Azure IaaS offer, or in other words, Windows or Linux VMs on Azure:
As you can see, the offer consists of the following two layers:
- The infrastructure in the Azure Data Center
- The actual VMs
The area infrastructure is easily explained: VMs are an abstraction ...