Azure Container Service

Microsoft Azure Container Service (ACS) is an Azure Resource Provider for creating and managing a cluster of machines that act as container hosts. ACS makes it extremely easy to provision a production-ready cluster using popular open source cluster management and scheduling tools.

A single resource provider can be used to provision a Mesos or Docker Swarm cluster, which are some technologies we will cover later in this chapter, in the scheduling section. The ACS resource provider requires only a handful of properties to deploy an entire cluster. The properties can even be defined at deployment using ARM template parameters and variables discussed earlier in this chapter.

ACS Resource Provider

The following ARM resource ...

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