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Anonymous
Dec 05, 2017

Similarities between Azure Containers and Windows 2016 Server containers

So, is this Containers for Dummies? I certainly hope so! My interest is how Azure Containers and Windows 2016 Server containers are similar, and how they can work together to provide a hybrid develop...
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Weijuan Shi Davis
Former Employee
Dec 05, 2017

Bill - what Azure platforms are you referring to? There are different types of container services on Azure including some supporting Windows Server 2016 containers.  How do you plan to manage your containers after you deploy locally on your own hardware?

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    Anonymous
    Dec 05, 2017

    I envision using Azure Cloud services directly from Microsoft (e.g. not on-premise hosting) for a virtual development environment. Deployment for customer systems looks like running the containerized-app on a dedicated on premise hardware set, a relatively small scale system. Container management and how things are maintained is certainly one of the open questions where I need to know more.

     

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      Weijuan Shi Davis
      Former Employee
      Dec 05, 2017

      Bill - If I understand correctly, you'd like to leverage Azure's container related tooling and infrastructure support for your development work. That could be Azure Service Fabric, Azure Container Services, Azure Container Instance, Azure Kubernetes Services etc. Once the development is done in that virtual environment with Azure services,  you wanted to deploy on premise customized hardware, and will also manage and maintain yourself. Right?

       

      This flow is interesting and is opposite to the flows that I am more familiar with: develop locally and/or on cloud and deploy to cloud. I am glad to learn this and add to the Enterprise Developer experience that I am driving at.

       

      My intuition is this is doable but I haven't done this myself and haven't seen others done this yet. I am new to the Container team so I am learning with the community too.

       

      My suggestion is you can start trying out those Azure container related services. Azure Service Fabric might be a good option because Service Fabric does have an on premise option for customers to manage and deploy on their own. 

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