Docker on Azure

Learn how to use Docker and the powerful features in Azure to optimize and simplify how you deploy applications to the cloud.

Introduction

• From virtual machines to containers
• What you should know

1. Containerizing Applications

• From app to containerized app
• Create an Azure Container Registry
• Use ACR locally
• Connect Azure Repos with ACR
• Automated container builds
• Enable CI trigger
• Challenge: Update a container
• Solution: Commit a code change

2. Set Up Azure Container Service

• Container instances or VMs?
• Create a container VM
• Connect VM to ACR
• Deploy container from ACR
• Deploy container via ACI
• Challenge: Deploy a public container
• Solution: Use ACI

3. Networking

• Managing cluster communications
• Create a security group for Docker VM
• Validate SG limits on Docker VM
• Challenge: Limit container access
• Solution: Update security group

4. Storage

• Container persistence
• Define a template with volumes
• Update hostname.sh script
• Launch and validate a template
• Show multicontainer storage

5. Troubleshooting

• Find container metrics for ACI
• Create a broken application
• Discover container state
• Fix failure
• Exec access

Conclusion

• Next steps