This chapter discusses various options for deploying applications on the cloud, including bare metal servers, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, and PaaS. The speakers highlight the popularity of VMs for cloud migration, the increasing interest in Kubernetes, and the introduction of Azure Container apps as a Kubernetes alternative. They also touch on containerization of Python applications, coordinating multiple containers, and the challenges of connecting them. Lastly, they discuss code simplicity, the Azure CLI, and the lowercase Azure developer CLI project.