Sunday, October 4, 2020
What is Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) allows us to deploy individual containers in Azure without having to provision Virtual Machines.
It is kind of a serverless computing environment where we can deploy our applications as Docker containers in Azure Container Instances.
Creating an Azure Container Registry (ACR)
We can create an Azure Container Registry (ACR) in different ways, using Azure CLI or Azure Portal or Powershell. In this post, we shall see how to create an Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI.
The first step in creating an Azure Container Registry (ACR) using Azure CLI is to log in to Azure CLI. Open a command prompt and enter the command.What is Azure Container Registry?
Azure Container Registry is like a private DockerHub in Azure. It is a managed private Docker registry service based on the open-source Docker Registry 2.0. Create and maintain Azure container registries to store and manage your private Docker container images and related artifacts.
We can configure to push the docker images into Azure Container Registry. Familiar tools such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins CI/CD pipeline can be configured to use Azure Container Registry as a build endpoint.
Azure CLI
Azure CLI (Command-line Interface) is a command-line tool for Manager azure services. It's like Angular CLI, it provides various commands to manage Azure services in an Account. Before we can start using Azure CLI we need to install it, the latest version of Azure CLI can be installed from the following site.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latestOnce Azure CLI is installed run the az --version command to make sure that the installation was done successfully.
