Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the concepts of Docker and Kubernetes. We ran a number of containers, starting with an existing image and then using an image we built ourselves. After that demo, we explored three essential Kubernetes objects: the Pod, the Deployment, and the Service.

This provides the common context for the remaining chapters, where you will deploy Dockerized applications in Microsoft AKS. You will see how the AKS Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft streamlines Deployment by handling many of the management and operational tasks that you would have to do yourself if you managed and operated your own Kubernetes infrastructure.

In the next chapter, we will introduce the Azure portal and its components in the context of creating your first AKS cluster.