Azure Container Service

This is an article that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time coming, and somehow never came around to it. Well, today it’s quiet at the (virtual) office so here it goes! Source is here.

I was looking for a way to create different versions of the amazing acs-engine project and I came up with a simple Dockerfile that uses multi-stage build. This way, the final docker container is only 51Mb!

This will be a short article on how to avoid inserting (and God forbid, pushing to Github) secrets into acs-engine templates, based on recent PR’s to acs-engine project.

Azure Container Service clusters are IaaS-based container orchestration framework clusters (as of writing, DC/OS, Kubernetes and Swarm are the supported frameworks) made easy to deploy on Azure.