How to Build and Deliver Apps Fast and Scalable with Azure Container Apps

Build and deploy container-based apps and microservices at scale, with the new fully managed Azure Container Apps service. Jeff Hollan, serverless technology expert for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to show the benefits and how it works under the covers.
Microservices help teams build and deliver apps faster and more scalable than traditional architectures. Containers are a core piece of tech when building microservices, because they provide a consistent way to package and run microservice code anywhere. You can still run containers and microservices in Azure, but rather than having to do it directly with Kubernetes, get it up and running quickly using Azure Container Apps.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Why use containers and microservices?
03:08 - How Azure Container Apps service differs
05:35 - How it works
07:40 - Modernize existing apps
10:03 - Benefits of modernizing to container apps
11:46 - Wrap up
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[@vladimirEncina]

great video, this is a huge boost to the begginners

[@falven]

Thank you for this demo!
May I ask how you did the load testing? Is the code open sourced somewhere?

[@Deltacasper]

Thanks for the demo, when do you expect the service to be generally available (out of preview) ?

[@AshutoshSharma31]

Microsoft demo using apple laptop :)

[@we.do.devops]

true haha

[@USONOFAV]

Is this on par with Kubernetes orchestration when I want to scale my app?
The only disadvantage of this is, it is Azure specific and you can't migrate to other cloud or is the anything else? Can it do blue-green deployment?

[@asg102]

How did you trigger the load test? did you do this via Azure?

[@imosflow]

super!

[@_dinesh]

Thank you for the video. Just curious so what happens when it "scales to zero" and a http request is received when there are no pods running? Would the user get a 404, timeout or just a very slow response?

[@twitchizle]

the first requests takes ~15seconds slow response, other requests are fast. if there is no any requests within 5mins, it will scale to zero again.

[@ThDaViDs07]

I am using in production, it's really good and amazing fast

[@MSFTMechanics]

Great to hear!

[@HimalayaGarg]

How those two containers are talking to each other after moving Payment code to Microservice? Isn't the url different for Payment Microservice?

[@we.do.devops]

In Kubernetes, each Pod has an IP address. A Pod can communicate with another Pod by directly addressing its IP address, but the recommended way is to use Services. so your containers are talking with each other using services and not urls

[@drummerboi4eva]

Super !!

[@ansu333adoor]

🎉

[@Giotheasy]

Of course MS engineer using mac

[@teebu]

How do I get application insights to work with container apps? I figured it out, if you have a cloudfunction docker image, you just need to add ENV variable with your APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY