Azure Container Instances

While AKS is a complete orchestration solution, you might sometimes like to use a lightweight service instead that provides the most crucial features related to running containers. These features include no need to provision and manage virtual machines, security, and integrated public IP connectivity. If you want to run a containerized simple application such as a WebJob or website, Azure Container Instances (ACI) can be used to satisfy your requirements.

Creating and deploying an application and container

We will start our journey with ACI by creating an application that we will host in a container. In the previous section, we used a simple Python script—this time we will try to use Node.js...