Serverless containers with Azure Container Instances (ACI)
In this episode, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Container Instances (ACI) to host a containerized application. Mark deploys an image processing container in three ways: as a standalone ACI container, as part of a Logic Apps workflow, and as the backend of a web app. ACI provides general-purpose, serverless containers-as-a-service that can be used with Logic Apps, App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and other platforms in Azure to serve dev, test, and production workloads. Use ACI for deploying build/test containers, host backend APIs, or as part of a workflow. [0:00:00]- Overview[0:00:52]- What is ACI and when should I use it? [0:04:30]- Demo: Simple ACI deployment with a public IP endpoint[0:09:42]- Demo: ACI-Logic Apps integration[0:12:30]- Demo: ACI as a production backend for a web app[0:13:38]- Wrap-up Azure Container Instances overviewQuickstart: Deploy a container instance in Azure using the Azure CLIACI Logic Apps connectorACI Connector documentationDeploy to Azure Container Instances with Docker DesktopCreate a free account (Azure)