A good example is building a web application where you ll probably have a docker container that holds your database.
Web app for containers vs container instance.
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In this post we started by creating a new web app for containers instance using the azure portal.
Code runtime system tools system libraries and settings.
As you have noticed after reading the previous sections azure is an open cloud that offers multiple choices.
Both let you run a docker container so look similar but found these differences.
Standard azure web app supports c java python and other platforms.
A container image is a way to package an app or service like a snapshot and then deploy it in a reliable and reproducible way.
You could say that docker is not only a technology it s also a philosophy and a process.
To configure such features you don t need to know lot of thing.
Choosing azure compute platforms for container based applications.
A docker container image is a lightweight standalone executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.
Just pull container images from docker hub or a private azure container registry and web app for containers will deploy the containerized app with your preferred dependencies to production in seconds.
It has never been easier to deploy container based web apps.
Next we built on our ci pipeline from earlier posts adding the ability to automatically deploy new versions to our app instance via azure pipelines.
Web app is a platform as a service way of running your web applications in azure.
Container images become containers at runtime and in the case of docker containers images become containers when they run on docker engine.
Deploy to azure in seconds.
Recently azure introduced support for web app for linux and containers.
In that effort let s look at the azure container instances and web app for containers.
In web apps you can mount a shared folder on home this will be shared between all replicas in ci you can mount an storage account into your container on any path.
Databases need to be able to write data to the hard drive so that it can be retrieved later.
A container is an instance of a container image.
Docker has the ability to configure containers and share folders between the container and the host computer.