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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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Planning for containerization

Before you start preparing Dockerfiles and building Docker images, it is important that you understand how your application components work, how Docker will help them, and, most importantly, whether you need Docker for them. While you can run pretty much every type of application in Docker, that doesn't mean you necessarily have to. Confusing enough? Let's dive in to clarify this.

Before you start containerizing, ask yourself a few questions:

  • What's the challenge you're trying to solve by containerizing your application or what feature do you want to utilize most after you move to containers? 
  • What is the nature of your application components? Divide them into stateful and stateless categories.
  • How do you currently ...
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