Exercise 5: Creating and Managing ACA

The best way to get to grips with ACA is to get practical experience and try it out. In this exercise, you will create two apps: a front-end web app and a back-end API. Only the front end should be accessible to the public and the backend should only be accessible from within the environment.

Task 1: Building and Running Multiple Containers Locally

Follow these steps to get experience with running multiple containers simultaneously locally using docker-compose, before deploying and running the containers in ACA:

1. From the previously cloned repository for this book, open the Chapter03\02-azure-container-apps directory within VS Code.

   The demoapi project uses the default webapi .NET template to display some mock weather forecast information. The demoapp project just makes a GET request to a URL and displays the output. The URL uses the API_URL setting, which can be found in appsettings.json.

2. Open a terminal session from the demoapi...