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Brett Hargreaves
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Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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Architecting for containerization and Kubernetes

This section will look in more detail at AKS, Microsoft's implementation of Kubernetes. To understand what AKS is, we need to take a small step back and understand containerization and Kubernetes itself.

Containerization

As we briefly mentioned earlier, containerization is a form of virtualization in that you can run multiple containers upon the same hardware, much like virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines, containers share the underlying OS of the host. This provides much greater efficiency and density. You can run many more containers upon the same hardware than you can run virtual machines because of the lower memory overhead of needing to run multiple copies of the OS – as we can see in the following diagram:

Figure 7.10 – Containers versus virtual machines

In addition to this efficiency, containers are portable. They can easily be moved from one host to another, and this is because containers are self...

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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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