Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Provisioning

We are going to need some machines to run our application, and they will need to be initialized with cluster management software. In addition to the virtual machines needed to run our application, we will need to provision storage accounts, availability sets, virtual networks, and load balancers. We might even need to provision some additional Microsoft Azure hosted services like a Service Bus, Azure DocumentDB, or Azure SQL Database.

We can break provisioning down into two high level concerns: outside the box and inside the box. Provisioning outside the box would include creating all the correct resources like networking, virtual machines, and similar. Inside the box would be anything that needs to set up inside the service, such ...