Setting up Azure Container Apps

We are going to use the Azure CLI and the Azure portal to manage the deployment of our solution to Azure Container Apps. Let’s start with enabling the CLI.

After we log in to Azure, our first objective is to make sure the extension for the CLI and the Azure resource provider are both registered. We can achieve this with the following commands:

 C:\Repos\practical-dapr\chapter13> az extension add --name 
containerapp --upgrade 
… omitted …
C:\Repos\practical-dapr\chapter13> az provider register --
namespace Microsoft.App
… omitted … 

Our next steps are set out here:

1. Create a resource group
2. Create a Log Analytics workspace
3. Create an Application Insights resource
4. Create an Azure Container Apps environment

Instructions for the first three steps are provided in the prepare.ps1 file, using the CLI.

At this stage in our journey, you have probably accumulated a certain level of...