#1 most frequent
United States of America
47.0%592 installations of 1,260
What is Azure Container Apps?
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).
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.3
Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.7
Upgrades and platform fixes
Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes
Category average: 7.7
Areas for Improvement
Development environment creation
Ease of creating new development environments
Category average: 8.1
Development environment replication
Ease of replicating new development environments
Category average: 7.9
Issue recovery
Ease of recovery from problem state
Category average: 7.2
Who Buys & Uses Azure Container Apps
#2 most frequent
Canada
7.7%97 installations of 1,260
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.3%92 installations of 1,260
Azure Container Apps a goer
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is use to enable our organisation to fully managed all the Azure apps from one central platform. This enable a seamless and serverless integration. As it is cloud native, it can be assess anywhere and anytime. This has help us to save considerable amount of time and with its integration with Azure and our domain controller it is the perfect combination.
Pros
- Cloud-native where it can be assess anywhere
- Enhance security
- Open source
Cons
- Continue to enhance security
- Better pricing
- Flexibility
Return on Investment
- 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
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Intune and Jamf Pro
Other Software Used
Microsoft Intune, Jamf Pro, Microsoft 365 Manager
Azure Container Apps - Unbiased review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
To deploy light weight applications and micro services on Azure where you don’t want to manage the control plane and provide a quick place for developers to deploy and test applications.
Pros
- Gives user a level of autonomous access
- No control plane or node pool to manage
- Less kubernetes experience required
- Easily integrate with Azure devops
Cons
- The deployment process is complicated
- Learning of Azure cli (command-line interface) for deployment is required
- Not compatible with other standard CI/CD tools
Return on Investment
- Kind of. Saves management overhead for non critical applications
- Monitoring is easy
- Lock-in with Azure which is against the principles of multi-cloud architecture.
Alternatives Considered
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Other Software Used
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)