Chapter 5
Azure Container Instances
Overview
Azure Container Instances (ACIs) enable organizations to deploy containers in the cloud on-demand, without having to build and manage the back-end VM infrastructure. A serverless Azure environment completely managed by Microsoft, ACIs allow organizations to use containers without requiring the implementation of a container-orchestration solution such as Kubernetes. This makes it easy for organizations to get up and running with container instances extremely quickly. ACI supports both Windows and Linux container deployments using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, the Azure CLI, and ARM templates.
Some common use cases for ACI include the following:
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