Modern enterprise applications use containers. Containerization is at the heart of microservices implementation ensuring proper technical bounded context to the organizational business services.

Azure fully supports Docker-based containers, and containers can be deployed in well-segregated DEV, TEST, and production environments of an enterprise in the Azure cloud. With a lot of containers for your microservices, the integrity of containers becomes complex, and the Azure container service eases it by automating the management of high density containers with reliability and performance using open source orchestrators like Mesos DC/OS, Docker swarm, and Kubernetes. It provides control on containers cluster management.