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Azure Container Instances

• Azure Container Instances
  • launch containers without worrying configuring underlying virtual machine
  • Containers are provisioned in seconds
  • Billed per second, VMs per hour
  • Granular customization of vCPU, Memory and Storage vs VMs which has standard sizes
  • Can deploy both Windows and Linux Containers
  • Persist Storage with
    • Azure Files
    • …
  • Accessible via FQDN customlabel.azureregion.azurecontainers.io
  • Has quickstart images to launch example apps:
    • Docker Hub
    • Azure Container Registry
    • Private hosted Container Registry
  • Container Groups - ??
    • Shares lifecycle
    • Resources
    • local network
    • storage volumes
  • Container Restart Policies
    • Always - Webservers
    • Never - background jobs
    • On-Failure
  • Container Environment Variables
    • Set via Azure Portal, CLI and Powershell
    • Secured Environment Variables
      • Be set via CLI to never be exposed to human eyes
  • Container Persist Storage
    • Containers are stateless by default
    • mount external volume
      • Azure Files
      • Secret Volumes
      • Empty Directory
      • Cloud Git repo
    • do it via CLI
  • Container Troubleshooting
    • CLI
      • az container logs
      • az container attach
      • az container exec
      • az monitor metrics list
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