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Containerization concepts - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press
Containerization concepts
- [Instructor] Containerization is quickly becoming a popular option for hosting solutions, not just in Azure, but on-premises and other cloud vendors. Containerization uses an engine, and probably the most popular and the one used in Azure, is called Docker. In this lesson, we'll go through the concept of what containerization is and why it's so useful. Containers wrap and isolate individual applications and their dependencies. That is a container can be thought of as an entire environment and an application or service. What we mean by this is if you want to host a website, you first need a server, virtual or physical, and then you must install some web hosting software such as IIS or Apache. Finally, before we can copy over our actual website code, we might need to install some additional dependencies. Traditional, all this is done by documenting all the steps required to set up the whole server. However, this can be…
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