Running Containers in Azure Container Instances

ACI is a great solution for scenarios that can operate in isolated containers. If you want to use images from your ACR, you will need to enable the admin user on your ACR, which we’ll go through in the upcoming exercise.

ACI also has the concept of container groups, within which multiple containers share a life cycle, resources, network, and so on because they’ll be running on the same host. If you’re familiar with a Pod in Kubernetes, this is a similar concept.

Multi-container groups currently only support Linux containers. One use case for this can be having a container for the frontend of an application, with another container for the backend within the same container group. The frontend will serve the web application, while the backend will be retrieving data, for example. Any containers within a container group share the same public IP address and port namespace on that IP address. Because of this, port...