Containers Resources

Containers fall into Platform as a Service model and could be an excellent hosting solution.

Azure supports multiple containers engine such as Docker. There is multiple advantage to use containers instead of virtual machines (VMs). For example, containers are way much light-weight than virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines that virtualize the entire hardware, containers only virtualize the operating system. Thus, containers are a way much faster to deploy than VMs and are also highly scalable.

Multiple containers with virtualizing multiple OS can be deployed on a single host or virtual host. Like virtual machines, containers are isolated and run independently.