Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)
by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Daniel Fernandez
Containers on Azure
Within Microsoft Azure, virtual machines offer many platforms to choose from. These include many Linux distributions such as CoreOS, SUSE, Ubuntu and Red Hat, as well as Windows-based systems. As mentioned before, we will focus on Docker containers in this book. Docker is currently the most popular container technology and the Docker ecosystem is growing at a very fast pace. Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Docker, Inc., which contains an agreement that the open-source Docker engine that builds and runs Docker containers is available in Windows Server 2016. Windows Server containers use the Docker runtime and enable developers who are familiar with the Windows ecosystem to develop container-based solutions. At ...
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