Preface

Azure is a public Cloud computing from Microsoft provider. It provides a range of Cloud services including compute, network, storage and analytics. Users are able to select from them to develop and scale new or existing application in the Cloud.

Further development of applications, processes, and infrastructure is critical to successfully modernizing your organization and achieving your strategic goals. To increase business value, enterprises are adopting new application architectures that can deliver new capabilities quickly and flexibly. Agile business processes optimize operational efficiency and accelerate response to changing market conditions. Essentially, cloud-based infrastructure allows companies to control costs and, importantly, benefit from new innovations. Containers are one of the key technologies for modernizing and optimizing IT.

The goal of this book is to modernize your application by adopting containers and processes. We’ll learn which Azure services to choose to run your application and how select the suitable service based on your needs. There are many options in Azure to run your applications. These range from VMs to Container to Cloud Services and we will explore the foundational knowledge of the Microsoft Azure landscape that will help you as you move forward to pick the right services in Azure for your applications.