Getting Started with Azure Container Instances
Let's get started with Azure Container Instances.
We'll cover the following...
Discussing our plan
We’ve seen how to use Google Cloud Run and AWS ECS with Fargate as managed CaaS solutions in previous lessons. Let’s see if we can do something similar in Azure. For that, the best candidate is probably Container Instances service.
Azure Container Instances is a solution for scenarios where we would like to run isolated containers without orchestration. The last two words are the key to understanding the service. It’s without orchestration. That piece of information will be critical for understanding the pros and cons of the service.
Since it uses container images, we can write code in any language we want. We can use any application server and any dependencies. Long story short, if an application and everything it needs can be packaged into a container image, it can be deployed to Azure Container Instances. The service abstracts infrastructure management, allowing us to focus on our applications and the business value we’re trying to create.
We’ll discuss the pros and cons of using Azure Container Instances later. Right now, we need a bit of hands-on experience with it.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, we’ll need to ensure that we have a few prerequisites set ...