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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Web Apps for containers

Web Apps for containers is part of the Azure App Service on Linux. You can also run Windows containers on it, but at the time of writing this book, this feature is still in preview. It lets you easily deploy and scale your own Docker-formatted images based on Linux distributions on Azure. Docker is based on open standards, which means it can run on all major Linux distributions and Windows Server 2016. 

Docker containers are lightweight sandboxes on top of your OS. When your application is deployed inside a Docker container, the app cannot see or access all the other applications or processes that are running on the same OS. You can compare this to creating different VMs to host different types of workloads or applications, ...

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