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Azure Container Apps

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What is Azure Container Apps?

Azure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full…

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
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Pricing

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vCPU (seconds)

active usage $0.000024 and idle usage $0.000003

Cloud
per second 180,000 vCPU-seconds free grant per month

Memory (GiB-Seconds)

active usage $0.000003 and idle usage $0.000003

Cloud
per second 360,000 GiB-seconds free grant per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Azure Container Apps?

Azure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).

It features:
  • Support for a variety of application types, including HTTP APIs, microservices, event processing, and background tasks
  • Flexibility to write code using your language, framework, or SDK of choice
  • Robust autoscaling capabilities based on HTTP traffic or event triggers
  • Simple configurations to perform modern application lifecycle tasks

It is presented as a serverless container service built for microservice applications boasting robust autoscaling capabilities without the overhead of managing complex infrastructure. Users can run containers and scale in response to HTTP traffic or a growing list of KEDA-supported scale triggers including Azure Event Hub, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ Queue, MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Users pay only for what they use.

Azure Container Apps Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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June 10, 2024

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 5 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
To deploy light weight applications and micro services on Azure where you don’t want to manage the control plane and provide a quick place for developers to deploy and test applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Gives user a level of autonomous access
  • No control plane or node pool to manage
  • Less Kubernetes experience required
  • Easily integrate with Azure devops
  • The deployment process is complicated
  • Learning of Azure cli (command-line interface) for deployment is required
  • Not compatible with other standard CI/CD tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Use for light weight apps. Not an enterprise grade product. The deployment can only be performed using Azure cli (command-line interface) and cannot be integrated with standards CI/CD tools.
Azure Container Apps Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
57.27272727272727%
5.7
Ease of building user interfaces
50%
5.0
Scalability
70%
7.0
Platform management overhead
100%
10.0
Workflow engine capability
50%
5.0
Platform access control
60%
6.0
Services-enabled integration
40%
4.0
Development environment creation
50%
5.0
Development environment replication
40%
4.0
Issue monitoring and notification
40%
4.0
Issue recovery
40%
4.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • Kind of. Saves management overhead for non critical applications
  • Monitoring is easy
  • Lock-in with Azure which is against the principles of multi-cloud architecture.
Alternatives Considered
Other Software Used
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Users and Roles
10
Mostly business applications are banking applications. It critical applications with no customer data as these applications are hosted on shared infrastructure underneath
Support Headcount Required
2
Cloud engineering team and container support
Business Processes Supported
  • Light weight applications
  • Developer autonomously deploy applications
  • Quick testing of containers
Innovative Uses
  • No unexpected use cases
Future Planned Uses
  • Container applications for quick deployment
  • Develop test cars and run those test cases on these applications
Likelihood to Renew
2
I would rather use AKS for my critical applications. The fact that the deployment process is dependent on as cli makes it hard for us to integrate with our standard CI/CD tools.
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