Azure Container Apps vs. Helm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Apps
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Azure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).N/A
Helm
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Helm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.N/A
Pricing
Azure Container AppsHelm
Editions & Modules
vCPU (seconds)
active usage $0.000024 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 180,000 vCPU-seconds free grant per month
Memory (GiB-Seconds)
active usage $0.000003 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 360,000 GiB-seconds free grant per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container AppsHelm
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure Container AppsHelm
Features
Azure Container AppsHelm
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
5.3
2 Ratings
38% below category average
Helm
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control4.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration4.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation4.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification5.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes6.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Container AppsHelm
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
(2 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container AppsHelm
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps is a welcome addition for sure. Based on my experience, this has enabled us to move fully to the cloud and managed everywhere in one spot and on the go. We can scale it to our end as much as we would like. It can be assess anywhere and it is fully secure
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Open Source
If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Gives user a level of autonomous access
  • No control plane or node pool to manage
  • Less kubernetes experience required
  • Easily integrate with Azure devops
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Open Source
  • Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
  • Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
  • Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Continue to enhance security
  • Better pricing
  • Flexibility
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Open Source
  • concurrent deployments
  • templating values files
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
I would rather use AKS for my critical applications. The fact that the deployment process is dependent on as cli makes it hard for us to integrate with our standard CI/CD tools
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Open Source
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps are fantastic and it is a game changer. I would recommend it to anyone considering it. As you can scale it to what you would like and it is fully cloud native with better security. It is a no brainier not to consider it. I do believe that with further improve it will become even more attractive
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Open Source
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Open Source
We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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Open Source
We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • As it is cloud native, we no longer required to have onsite prem
  • Reducing both from an energy and security perspective
  • It is worth the investment as we have saved about 10% of our ICT cost
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Open Source
  • Reduction in human effort.
  • Streamline software versions and upgrades.
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