As mentioned already, running just container instances in Azure is quite easy. By running your workloads in ACI, you don't have to set up a management infrastructure for your containers, you just can put your focus on design and building the applications.
Let's create a first simple container in Azure using the portal:
- Go to
Container Instances
underNew
|Marketplace
|Everything
, as shown in the following screenshot:
- After having chosen the
Container Instances
entry in the resources list, you will have to define some properties, which are described as follows:
At first, we will need to define the Azure container name. Of course, this needs to be unique in your environment. Then, we will need to define the source of the image and to which resource group and region it should be deployed within Azure.
- As already mentioned, containers can reside on Windows and Linux, because this needs to be defined at first. Afterwards, we will need to define the resources...