Web App for Containers

You do not have to use AKS or ACI to leverage features of containers in Azure—currently, there is one more feature available that you can use to deploy web applications written in an unsupported language (such as Go). Web App for Containers is an extension to App Services that uses Linux under the hood with Docker to run a service built on a stack, which is not currently supported by Azure.

Creating a web app hosted in a container

To create an App Service running with a Docker instance, you have to follow the very same steps from Chapter 1, Azure App Service, when we were discussing the creation of a web app using Azure Portal.

Once you reach the web app creation blade, take a look at the OS...