Virtual Machine Extensions – Automation, Deployment, and Configuration of Resources
By now, you know how to create a VM and gain access to the VM. Let’s say you want to create hundreds of VMs and want to configure them with…
Azure App Service Plans – PaaS Compute Options
Every App Service you create in Azure runs inside an App Service plan. If you are not aware of App Service, you can consider it as an instance of your…
Azure App Services – PaaS Compute Options
Azure App Services refers to the applications, websites, mobile backends, or REST APIs that you deploy to the App Service plans. Earlier, App Services were known as web apps. In…
Securing App Service – PaaS Compute Options
If you are deploying your application to a virtual machine, you need to write code to integrate with an authentication provider. For example, let’s say you want your end users…
Custom Domains – PaaS Compute Options
Adding custom domain names to your application offers several advantages such as they are easy to remember, they offer branding, and they enable easier integration with other services. As you…
Backup – PaaS Compute Options
Since you are hosting mission-critical applications in Azure App Services, it’s important to know about the options available for backup and restore. As the name suggests, the Backup and Restore…
Azure Container Instances – PaaS Compute Options
As you have seen in the Docker architecture, you can deploy containers to a virtual machine running on Azure. Since virtual machines are an infrastructure-as-a-service solution, more administration and intervention…
Container Groups 2 – PaaS Compute Options
AKS is a completely platform-managed cluster, and you can easily create Kubernetes clusters in Azure and deploy your applications. AKS offloads the complex management and configuration tasks to Azure so…
Container Groups – PaaS Compute Options
A container group is a collection of containers that are scheduled on the same host machine. Since they are scheduled to the same host machine, you can share lifecycles, resources,…
Terminology – PaaS Compute Options
There are different terminologies that are associated with Kubernetes. In the previous section, you might have noticed the keyword pod; that is Kubernetes terminology. Figure 9.15 explains the terminology. FIGURE…