Azure Container Services and Creating a Container Host Virtual Machine

This document will help you to learn about Azure Container Services and how to create a Container Host Virtual Machine.

Azure Container Service helps us to create, configure, manage, scale and leverage the virtual machines, which are preconfigured to run with containerized Applications. The open source tools used here allows us to move with large scale to deploy and manage the container based Applications under Microsoft Azure.

Azure Container Service leverages the Docker container format to ensure that your Application containers are fully portable. Azure Container Service supports Marathon and DC/OS or Docker Swarm, which allows us to scale our Applications with thousands of containers or even more than that.

Azure Container Service helps us with a container hosting world with the help of Open Sourcing tools and technologies, which are popular among developers and clients. We use API endpoints here, which can leverage any software, which is capable of talking to these endpoints.

The physical Server or virtual machine, which hosts the Docker runtime environment and associated containers, is known as container host. You should have an Azure account to create a VM of Windows Server 2016 Core with Containers Tech Preview 4 image.

Follow the steps given below to create a Container Host VM.

Log in to the Azure portal with your Azure credentials.

Azure portal home page looks, as shown below.

Go to Marketplace and search for Windows Server 2016 core with the containers.

Create this container host VM by clicking Create.