Pros and cons of running containers on Azure Container Apps

We have seen that it is relatively easy to get started with a single container on Azure Container Apps. But of course, there are both pros and cons to using Azure Container Apps. Some of these will be explored in depth in Part 2 of this book, and some we have already discussed throughout this chapter.

Pros

Let’s start with some benefits that Azure Container Apps bring, and, surely, they are good.

Speed

Azure Container Apps is fast! Going from zero to an environment with a container running inside of it takes less than a couple of minutes and merely a few commands. If Azure Container Apps is not your production platform, it is definitely a platform to use for testing the functionality of your container in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Microservices

Yes, microservices. The way Azure Container Apps is designed, the way we can isolate environments but also have multiple containers in a single environment...