So a few months ago I attended an Azure Bootcamp in St. Louis that was produced/sponsored by Kevin Grossnicklaus at Architect Now. Kevin is an expert at many technologies (including Azure) and has done some amazing things for the city of St. Louis with respect to “sharing the knowledge” with all of his work and effort in the devUp (formerly Days of .NET) and the St. Louis .NET users group,e tc.. Just wanted to thank him there. As a benefit for attending the boot camp a few months back, we received $300 of free Azure credits. I had to “claim” them by July 8 or they would expire. So naturally (as I have a lot of other things going on as well as learning), I needed to prioritize my learning and would wait until about now before claiming the credits. You have 3 months to use them. So this gives me a good opportunity to dig into Azure.
One of the things I already noticed is that the ARM Templates are pretty much what the AWS Cloudformation service does in AWS. So I like how you can take your hands on knowledge in AWS and immediately relate most of it to the equivalent in Azure (and vice/verse).
As I’m focusing much of my time and effort outside of work on microservices, I’m digging into Containers and eventually Clusters in Azure.
ACI (Azure Container Instances)is Azure’s service that allows you to run your containers (usually Docker as I’m not sure if they support Rocket) in Azure. They do all of the heavy lifting for you behind the scenes.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/
Provides a quickstart.
If you have Pluralsight, you can take the following course (which is very good):
ACI is not to be confused with AKS which is the Kubernetes service on Azure that will handle the load balancing and clustering of your containers into Kubernetes PODS.
I enclosed a great start video for AKS which explains what that is about.
St. Louis area developer. 