We all aware how the containers helped the technology to evolve to next level and as per our understanding, current rapid growth may not this much quick, they may still get delayed. Part of that so far, we have understood what is docker
, how to use with multiple use cases. Along with container, cloud is one getting change day by day and all are enabling very important features to serve the on-demand technologies. As we aware ECS in AWS
is one of the most used service in AWS. As like that, Azure is one of the more adopting cloud services across multiple organization now a days. As azure cloud adoption increases, they are enabling all the on-demand services for their customers. Part of that Azure has introduced azure container instance (ACI) some time back. Which is one of key feature, as ACI adoption increasing rapidly with multiple on-demand or short jobs/tasks. Let’s check about Azure container instance and its features.
As we know containers are becoming the?preferred way to package, deploy, and manage new or latest applications. With that container Instances?offers the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to manage any virtual machines and without having to adopt a higher-level service.
- Azure Container Instances
are a one of the solutions for any scenario that can operate in isolated Containers offer significant start-up benefits over virtual machines (VMs).
- Azure Container Instances can start?containers in Azure in seconds, without the need to?provision and manage VMs. containers, including simple applications, task automation, and build jobs.
Let’s see the features azure container instances,
- Support for both Linux and Windows containers.
- Ability to launch new containers through the Azure portal or command line interface (CLI) or any preferable automated way like terraform—underlying compute resources are automatically configured and scaled.
- Support for standard Docker images and the use of public container registries, such as Docker Hub, as well as Azure Container Registry.
- Ability to specify the number of CPU cores and memory required for container instances.
- You can configure networking features like assigning a public IP address, add a prefix for its domain name and you can also choose what ports to expose.
- Linux containers are faster to start up because their image sizes are much smaller compared to Windows containers. Windows containers currently have a number of limitations and do not support all the exact same features that Linux containers do but hopefully, that will change soon.
- Azure Container Instances can have a restart policy allowing you to state that what should have happened when the container stopped.
- Azure Container Instances also allow you to mount volumes, where Azure file share is the most common use case. Other than that, you can also mount secret volumes or even git repositories as a volume.
- At the time of creating your container instance, you can optionally specify the command line just like you could its Docker where you can override the default initial command for a container.
- You can specify environment variables for your containers.
- you can also access the logs that the Azure Container Instances emit.
- Defining groups that organize multiple containers that share the same host, storage, and networking resources. This is similar to the concept of a pod in Kubernetes.
