Azure Container Apps

Overview

We run data APIs and workers on Azure Container Apps when the process is a container but does not need a full Kubernetes cluster. Revisions, ingress, scale rules, and secrets are set so a new image can be released and rolled back without a cluster administrator.

We connect the app to the lake, Service Bus, or SQL with managed identity, and we put logs in Log Analytics. Scale-to-zero is used for sporadic jobs and left off for APIs that must answer immediately.

What we deliver

• Container Apps environment, app, ingress, and scale rules
• Revision and rollback path for a new image
• Managed identity to data services and secrets from Key Vault
• Log Analytics diagnostics and a health endpoint

Business benefits

• Container workloads ship without standing up an AKS cluster
• A bad release is rolled back to the previous revision
• Idle workers can scale to zero when the traffic is sporadic