Introduction to Azure Container Apps

Containers are increasingly becoming the preferred way to package, deploy, and manage cloud applications and Microsoft Azure offers many options to work with containers. For example, you can use the Azure Container Registry to store and manage your private container images. Azure Container Instances or Azure App Services can be used to run isolated containers. Azure Kubernetes Service is a great option for more complex scenarios in which full container orchestration, automatic scaling, and service discovery are required. The problem is, Kubernetes is extremely difficult to use.

At the 2021 Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a new family member: Azure Container Apps. This service is intended to reduce the amount of knowledge and configuration needed to build an AKS application, potentially resulting in a decrease in solution costs and a faster time to market. In fact, according to a survey conducted by Statista.com on an audience of 1,153 IT professionals worldwide, more than half indicated that lack of in-house skills was the biggest challenge they faced when migrating to Kubernetes.