In this chapter, you learned about virtual machines and containers, and understood the difference between containers and VMs, various containerization technologies, and how the containerization fundamentals in today's world make up the full ecosystem, especially docker-based containers.

You also learned about the core of DevOps, practices including the CI and CD processes, and how it is becoming common in modern cloud-based development and deployment scenarios. Along the way, we also gave recommendations on the most popular tools for the right job in today's market. Now, the reader will be able to learn the emerging Architecture practices of the industry in a succinct and concise way with the .NET Core environment.

We went on to implement a sample microservices-containers-based application, something which we chose to skip in the Chapter 9, Microservices Architecture, and decided to demonstrate it when explaining containerization. We not only implement, our sample microservices application locally, but also successfully deployed our multi-container app on the Azure cloud using Azure container services. We discussed some of the internal aspects of Azure and its offerings for container-based applications. We also deployed our application on to ACS, which demonstrates how easy and flexible today's cloud infrastructure like Azure and AWS have become.