Azure Container Apps for Microservices

Sugavaneshwar S
3 min readMay 28, 2023

Let’s understand Container Apps

Azure Container Apps is an environment where you can run your containerized applications and handle event-driven processing on a server-less platform. Container Apps are capable of performing scaling, load balancing, networking, security, etc.

Why Container Apps?

You wanna spend more time on application and not on underlying infrastructure?

Need to maintain container revisions?

Would you like to play with containerized applications but are not fluent with containerization applications?

here we go with Container Apps.

Difference between Kubernetes and Container Apps?

Kubernetes provides the potential to orchestrate and manage all your container resources from a single control plane and it helps networking, load-balancing, security, and scaling after a lot of configuration whereas Container Apps does the same but without any configuration.

Azure Container Apps doesn’t provide direct access to the underlying Kubernetes APIs whereas Azure Kubernetes Service provides access to…

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