Hands-On Azure for Developers

Creating and deploying an application and container

We will start our journey with ACI by creating an application that we will host in a container. In the previous section, we used a simple Python script—this time we will try to use Node.js.

As always, you can find source files in the appropriate source file folder for this chapter.

The very first thing we need once more is Dockerfile. As you remember, it contains instructions on how an application should be run. The following is an example for this exercise:

FROM node:8.9.3-alpineRUN mkdir -p /bin/COPY ./app/ /bin/WORKDIR /binRUN npm installCMD node index.js

If you read it carefully, you will find it pretty easy—what it does (step-by-step) is as follows:

1. Installs the specific Node.js ...