Azure Container Instances for Serverless Containers

It was July 2017; serverless technologies were upcoming, and with the ever-growing popularity of containers, Microsoft couldn’t stay behind and released Azure Container Instances (ACI). Its promise is simplicity and no infrastructure management.

Over the years, the popularity of ACI has increased, and a lot has changed since its initial release date. ACI has become a valuable addition to the world of serverless and event-driven architectures. By integrating with numerous Microsoft Azure technologies such as Logic Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Storage to name a few, the use cases are almost endless.

We see machine learning (ML) solutions, batch processing, and APIs being deployed to ACI. The promise of simplicity resulted in a technology where we merely need a few commands to get things up and running.

Throughout this chapter, we will help you understand how ACI works, build a solution based on a use case...