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There is no doubt that building containerized applications and following a microservices architecture is one of the most common software architecture patterns observed in the past couple of years.

Microsoft Azure offers different services to package, deploy and manage cloud-native applications, each of which serves a certain purpose and has its own pros and cons. This page provides a good comparison between the available services to host and manage cloud-native containerized applications in Azure.

Whereas building cloud-native apps on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is powerful, there is a bit of a learning curve needed when it comes to creating and configuring the cluster, configuring networking between microservices, services discovery, certificates provisioning, and lastly managing the cluster over the lifetime of the application.

In this workshop, we will be focusing on a containerization service offered by Microsoft Azure which is Azure Container Apps (ACA). Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Container Apps back in Nov 2021 and in May 2022 it announced the General Availability of Azure Container Apps. In brief, Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container runtime for building and running cloud-native applications which focuses on the business logic of the apps rather than on cloud infrastructure management.