Exploring Azure Container Apps

Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools needed to harness the full potential of Azure Container Apps, Microsoft's cutting-edge platform for orchestrating and scaling containerized applications effortlessly.

Begin your journey with an introduction to Azure Container Apps (ACA), uncovering its unique features, benefits, and use cases. You will dive into setting up and using Azure Container Registry (ACR) to efficiently store and manage container images, while mastering best practices for access control and security. You will also explore the intricacies of creating and managing container instances using Azure Container Instances (ACI), with comprehensive guides on deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting. You will learn how to integrate the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) with Azure Container Apps, followed by best practices for Dapr integration and harness its powerful building blocks for state management and pub/sub mechanisms. You will navigate the complexities of communication between microservices within Azure Container Apps environments, exploring various communication patterns and techniques.

After reading this book, you will be able to work with ACA and implement the modern application deployment and scaling with Azure Container Apps with KEDA.

What You Will Learn

• Understand Azure Container Apps (ACA)
• Build and deploy Backend API and Frontend UI to ACA
• Communicate between different mcroservices in ACA
• Integrate with Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr)
• Understand state mnagement in ACA
• Schedule and manage backend jobs
• Monitor with Application insights

Who This Book Is For

Application developers, DevOps engineers, and tech enthusiasts