Azure App Services vs. Azure Kubernetes Service

Question

Hi everyone.
I have a project to develop a student admission management system, using a microservice architecture with Azure, with an estimate of 5 services (ASP.NET Core) and 1 service for Web UI (ReactJS) ), all services are containerized.

I am wondering about using 1 of 2 Azure products: Azure App Services or Azure Kubernetes Services. Can you advise me which service should I use? Some of the aspects we are interested in are:

1. Affordable
2. Easy to maintain
3. Scaling up/out quickly

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Dat Tran

If you are looking for a quick hosting solution for your app in Azure, Azure AppService is definitely the easiest & quickest way to be up and running.
It supports different deployment types:

• From source code
• From docker image
• From docker-compose.yml file

for more details refer comparission APP service/AKS

Related to costs- AKS is more transparent as you will pay only for the servers and disks that hosts the containers.

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Answer 2

There is a great article comparing various options for containerized apps in Azure. The article discusses in detail all the options available for you in Microsoft Azure to host containerized applications. Find the article below.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/compare-options

Also find another reference article that specifically compare Azure App Service with AKS.

https://spltech.co.uk/azure-appservice-vs-azure-kubernetes-service/
https://k21academy.com/docker-kubernetes/aks-vs-azure-app-service/

Hope this helps

Answer 3

This is a great article comparing various options for containerized applications in Azure. It provides detailed insights into the available hosting solutions for containerized apps in Microsoft Azure.

If you're looking to enhance your skills in managing Azure environments, here's a useful reference on Azure App Service.

For those wanting to dive deeper into Azure, here's an excellent course on AZ-104 Azure Administrator Training:

https://bestitcourses.com/courses/az-104-online-training

Hope this helps