Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Blue‑Green Strategy for Always‑On TCP Workloads on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:58:00 Z

Scenario: Always‑on workloads in Azure Container Apps continuously pull from a TCP source, process the stream, and push into Azure Managed Redis, which is then consumed by another always‑on Container...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Managed Redis, Categories:

Blue-Green Strategy for Always-On TCP Workloads on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:58:00 Z

Even simpler to Safely Execute AI-generated Code with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:04:00 Z

AI agents are writing code. The question is: where does that code run? If it runs in your process, a single hallucinated import os; os.remove('/') can ruin your day. Azure Container Apps dynamic sess...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Rethinking Background Workloads with Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:41:00 Z

Objective The blog explores background workload use cases where Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps provide clear advantages over traditional Container App Jobs. Here is an overview of Azure fu...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

From "Maybe Next Quarter" to "Running Before Lunch" on Container Apps - Modernizing Legacy .NET App

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:19:00 Z

In early 2025, we wanted to modernize Jon Galloway's MVC Music Store — a classic ASP.NET MVC 5 app running on .NET Framework 4.8 with Entity Framework 6. The goal was straightforward: address vulnera...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Serverless GPU Tutorial: Build an AI Image Generator with Azure Functions on Container Apps

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:25:00 Z

Learn how to deploy Stable Diffusion on Azure Container Apps with serverless GPUs. Step-by-step tutorial using Azure Functions, NVIDIA T4 GPUs, and scale-to-zero billing.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

🦞 Deploy OpenClaw to Azure Container Apps: Your 24/7 AI Assistant in 30 Minutes

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:06:00 Z

🚀 The Quick Version: Create a Discord bot, clone the repo, run azd up , invite bot to server, start chatting. Total time: ~25 minutes. Total cost: ~$40-60/month. Why Azure Container Apps over...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

🦞 Deploy MoltBot to Azure Container Apps: Your 24/7 AI Assistant in 30 Minutes

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:06:00 Z

Azure Command Launcher for Java

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:00:07 Z

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure. This tool provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual mac
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, App Service, Container Instances, Container Apps, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Services

Capacity Planning with Azure Container Apps Workload Profiles

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:23:00 Z

Overview Azure Container Apps (ACA) simplifies container orchestration, but capacity planning often confuses developers. Questions like “How do replicas consume node resources?”, “When does ACA add...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Blue-green deployment in Azure Container Apps using Azure Developer CLI

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:34:22 Z

Learn how to implement blue-green deployment in Azure Container Apps using Azure Developer CLI (azd) revision-based deployment strategy. The post Blue-green deployment in Azure Container Apps using Azure Developer CLI appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps: The Unified Platform for Event-Driven and Finite Workloads

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:03:00 Z

Overview Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) integrates the high-productivity model of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) with the flexible, cloud-native hosting environment of Azure Container ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Exposing Legacy APIs hosted on Azure Container Apps to AI Agents using MCP Servers

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:37:00 Z

Overview This article explains the process of exposing legacy APIs, which are hosted on Azure Container Apps, to AI Agents, as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers by utilizing Azure API Management...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Container Apps, Categories: Management

Azure Developer CLI (azd) Nov 2025 – Container Apps (GA), Layered Provisioning (Beta), Extension Framework, and Aspire 13

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:00:44 Z

This post announces the November release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`). The post Azure Developer CLI (azd) Nov 2025 – Container Apps (GA), Layered Provisioning (Beta), Extension Framework, and Aspire 13 appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Agentic Applications on Azure Container Apps with Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:22:00 Z

Agents have exploded in popularity over the last year, reshaping not only the kinds of applications developers build but also the underlying architectures required to run them. As agentic application...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Compose for Agents on Azure Container Apps and Serverless GPU (public preview)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:27:00 Z

Empowering intelligent applications The next wave of AI is agentic – systems that can reason, plan, and act on our behalf. Whether you’re building a virtual assistant that books travel or a multi‑...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps adds support for agentic Docker Compose

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps is bringing the familiar developer workflow of Docker Compose directly to Azure Container Apps. As one of the most widely adopted tools among developers, Docker Compose simplifies defining and running multi-container applications, and
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps introduces flexible workload profile

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Flexible workload profile represents a new option that blends the simplicity of consumption with many of the performance and control characteristics of dedicated workload profiles. This offers the same easy-to-understand, pay-per-use serverless model as C
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs in additional regions

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

To meet growing demand for GPU-powered workloads, Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions. This expansion enables developers to run AI inference, model training, and GPU-accelerated workloads with the simplic
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

Confidential computing in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Confidential computing support in Azure Container Apps is now in public preview. This release brings hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to your containerized workloads. Azure already provides encryption of data at rest and in transit, an
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Dynamic sessions shell environment and MCP support in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports dynamic shell sessions in public preview. A shell session is a platform-managed built-in container used to run and execute common shell commands in an isolated sandboxed environment. With Azure Container Apps dynamic ses
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Deployment labels in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports deployment labels in public preview as a new deployment mode. This feature simplifies environment management and enables advanced deployment strategies for your applications by allowing you to assign meaningful names—such
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Rule-based routing in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for rule-based routing is now generally available. This feature provides greater flexibility and composability to your Azure Container Apps by simplifying your architecture for microservice applications, A/B testing, blue-gree
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Premium Ingress in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for premium ingress is now generally available. This feature introduces environment-level ingress configuration options, with the primary highlight being customizable ingress scaling. This capability supports the scaling of th
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

What's new in Azure Container Apps at Ignite'25

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:18:00 Z

Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a fully managed serverless container platform that enables developers to design and deploy microservices and modern apps without requiring container expertise or needing...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

How-to add an MCP tool to your Azure Foundry agent using dynamic sessions on Azure Container Apps

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:14:00 Z

Now available in preview, Azure Container Apps supports a new shell session pool type in dynamic sessions as well as MCP support for both shell and Python container types. With MCP enablement, you ca...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps: The Unified Platform for Event-Driven and Finite Workloads

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:27:00 Z

Overview Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) integrates the high-productivity model of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) with the flexible, cloud-native hosting environment of Azure Container...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Azure MCP Server

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

Give your agents the power of cloud and redefining how developers interact with Azure. Built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), it can create a secure, standards-based bridge between Azure services—like AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, AI Foundry, and
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes Service, App Service, Cosmos DB, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:45:46 Z

This post walks through how to implement “build once, deploy everywhere” patterns using Azure Container Apps with the new azd publish and layered infrastructure features in Azure Developer CLI v1.20.0. You’ll learn how to deploy the same containerized application across multiple environments with proper separation of concerns. This is the third installment in our Azure […] The post Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Implementing Security Headers in Azure App Service and Azure Container Apps

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:52:00 Z

This blog guides on how to implement security headers in Azure App Services / Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Container Apps, Categories: Security, Services

Hosting Remote MCP Server on Azure Container Apps (ACA) using Streamable HTTP transport mechanism

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:22:00 Z

About Continuing from the earlier article of Hosting Remote MCP Server on Azure Container Apps (ACA) using SSE transport mechanism This blog showcases the Hosting Remote MCP Servers on Azure Cont...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Transition to Azure Functions V2 on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:39:00 Z

Introduction Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps lets you run serverless functions in a flexible, scalable container environment. As the platform evolves, there are two mechanisms to deploy Ima...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Building Agents on Azure Container Apps with Goose AI Agent, Ollama and gpt-oss

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:19:00 Z

Azure Container Apps (ACA) is redefining how developers build and deploy intelligent agents. With serverless scale, GPU-on-demand, and enterprise-grade isolation, ACA provides the ideal foundation fo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Choosing the Right Azure Containerisation Strategy: AKS, App Service, or Container Apps?

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:06:00 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) What is it? AKS is Microsoft’s managed Kubernetes offering, providing full access to the Kubernetes API and control plane. It’s designed for teams that want to run ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, App Service, Container Apps, Categories:

Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:30:02 Z

Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30, 2026. After this date, Service Connector (preview) will no longer be supported on Azure Container Apps. If you created service connections using the Azure Portal, your e
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Services, Retirements

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:52:00 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana, a major step forward in simplifying observability for your apps and environments. With thi...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories:

Building Agentic Workflows with n8n and Azure Container Apps

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:55:00 Z

When it comes to connecting systems and automating tasks, n8n has built a passionate community around a powerful, extensible workflow engine. With hundreds of integrations and the ability to share wo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Open AI's gpt-oss models on Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:57:00 Z

Deploy OpenAI's new gpt-oss models to Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs. Run these models using both the console in Azure Container Apps and locally through the CLI.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Container Apps, Categories:

Deploying MCP Server Using Azure Container Apps

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:35:00 Z

Authors: Joel Borellis, Mohamad Al Jazaery, Hwasu Kim, Kira Soderstrom Github Link This repository is a great starting point. It demonstrates deploying an MCP server with Azure Container Ap...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Private Preview: Announcing Azure Command Launcher for Java

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:59 Z

Announcing the private preview of jaz, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure. This tool provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual machines, ensuring more efficient use of resources right from
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Container Apps, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Features, Services

Running Self-hosted APIM Gateways in Azure Container Apps with VNet Integration

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:50:00 Z

With Azure Container Apps we can run containerized applications, completely serverless. The platform itself handles all the orchestration needed to dynamically scale based on your set triggers (such ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Virtual Network, Container Apps, Categories:

NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:00:06 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports mounting Network File System (NFS) Azure Files volumes to your containerized applications. NFS Azure Files volumes provide a scalable and high-performance file system for your apps and jobs. You can use NFS Azure Files vo
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Understanding Idle Usage in Azure Container Apps

Fri, 30 May 2025 15:32:00 Z

Introduction Azure Container Apps provides a serverless platform for running containers at scale, and one of the big benefits is that you can easily scale workloads to zero when they are not gettin...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Planned maintenance in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Planned maintenance is now generally available in Azure Container Apps. This feature allows you to control when non-critical updates are applied to your Container Apps environment to minimize downtime and impact to applications. Non-critical updates inclu
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Private endpoint support in Azure Container Apps for workload profiles environments

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Private endpoints are now supported in general availability for workload profile environments in Azure Container Apps. This enables customers to connect to their Container Apps environment using a private IP address in their Azure Virtual Network, elimina
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Network, Azure Front Door, Private Link, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

The capability to run Azure Container Apps on your own Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters (AKS and AKS-HCI) is now generally available. The cluster can be on-premises or hosted in a third-party cloud. This approach allows developers to take advantage
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Dedicated GPU in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Dedicated GPU support in Azure Container Apps is now generally available. Dedicated GPUs provide additional compute options tailored for AI applications, making them ideal for AI scenarios which require continuous availability and don’t scale to zero. T
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models in public preview. Azure AI Foundry Models have two deployment options - serverless APIs and managed compute. Azure Container Apps serverless GPU offers a balanced deployment option
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Enhanced Azure Functions experience in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:30:18 Z

We are introducing a new, streamlined method for running Azure Functions directly in Azure Container Apps. This integration allows you to leverage the full features and capabilities of Azure Container Apps while benefiting from the simplicity of auto-scal
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Configure health probes for Quarkus Apps on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 20 May 2025 07:10:00 Z

Overview This blog post shows you how to enable SmallRye Health in Quarkus applications with health probes in Azure Container Apps. The techniques shown in this blog post show you how to effectivel...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Durable task scheduler support in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 18:30:40 Z

Durable task scheduler, a fully managed backend for durable execution, is now available in public preview in Azure Container Apps. The durable task scheduler features a managed workflow engine responsible for scheduling workflow execution and persisting w
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Premium Ingress in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports premium ingress in public preview. This feature introduces environment-level ingress configuration options, with the primary highlight being customizable ingress scaling. This capability supports the scaling of the ingres
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Aspire Dashboard in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Container Apps .NET 8’s Aspire dashboard is now generally available, so you can access live data about your project and containers in the cloud to evaluate the performance of your applications and debug errors with comprehensive logs, metrics, trace
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories: Features

OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps is now generally available. This feature enables you to use open-source standards to send your app’s data without setting up the OpenTelemetry collector yourself. You can use the managed agent to choose where to
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories: Features

New Observability & Debugging Capabilities for Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:21:00 Z

Azure Container Apps gives you a strong foundation for monitoring and debugging, with built-in features that give you a holistic view of your container app’s health throughout its application lifecyc...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Unlocking new AI workloads in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:06:00 Z

Announcing new features to support AI workloads including - improved integrations for deploying Foundry models to Azure Container Apps, general availability of Dedicated GPUs, and the private preview...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Announcing Workflow in Azure Container Apps with the Durable task scheduler – Now in Preview!

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

We are thrilled to announce the durable workflow capabilities in Azure Container Apps with the Durable task scheduler (preview). This new feature brings powerful workflow capabilities to Azure Contai...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

What's new in Azure Container Apps at Build'25

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container service that runs microservices and containerized applications on Azure. It provides built-in autoscaling, including scale to zero, and of...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

New Networking Capabilities in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

New Networking Capabilities in Azure Container Apps Azure Container Apps is your go-to fully managed serverless container service that enables you to deploy and run containerized applications with ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Announcing Native Azure Functions Support in Azure Container Apps

Fri, 16 May 2025 05:21:00 Z

Azure Container Apps is introducing a new, streamlined method for running Azure Functions directly in Azure Container Apps (ACA). This integration allows you to leverage the full features and capabil...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps with Application Gateway and custom domain: hostname mismatch

Fri, 09 May 2025 07:41:00 Z

Introduction Azure Container Apps offers a robust platform for deploying microservices and containerized applications. When integrating with Azure Application Gateway, an internal container app env...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Application Gateway, Container Apps, Categories:

Rule-based routing in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:00:44 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports rule-based routing in public preview. This feature provides greater flexibility and composability to your Azure Container Apps by simplifying your architecture for microservice applications, A/B testing, blue-green deploy
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Getting Started with .NET on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:49:00 Z

Great news for .NET developers who would like to become familiar with containers and Azure Container Apps (ACA)! We just released a new Getting Started guide for .NET developers on Azure Container Ap...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Host remote MCP servers in Azure Container Apps

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:58:00 Z

Deploy a remote MCP server with SSE transport and API key authentication to Azure Container Apps and connect it to Visual Studio Code for use with GitHub Copilot.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Configure time-based scaling in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:55:00 Z

Azure Container Apps leverages cron-type KEDA scaling rules to schedule autoscaling actions at specific times. This feature is ideal for applications with predictable workload fluctuations (e.g., bat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Add-ons Feature in Azure Container Apps

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:15:47 Z

The public preview add-ons feature in Azure Container Apps will be retired on September 30, 2025. To prepare for this change, transition to Azure managed services, such as Azure Cache for Redis or Azure Database for PostgreSQL, if you’re ready to use a pr
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Redis Cache, Container Apps, Categories: Retirements

Serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps with NVIDIA NIM Support

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:00:29 Z

Serverless GPUs with NVIDIA NIM support is now generally available in Azure Container Apps. Serverless GPUs enable you to seamlessly run your AI workloads on-demand with automatic scaling, optimized cold start, per-second billing with scale down to zero w
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Announcing GA for Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:00:00 Z

Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs accelerated by NVIDIA are now generally available. Serverless GPUs enable you to seamlessly run billing with scale down to zero when not in use. Thus, reducing op...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps in Australia SE, France South, Japan West, and Spain Central

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:00:05 Z

Azure Containers Apps is now generally available in four additional regions: Australia Southeast, France South, Japan West, and Spain Central (Availability Zone Enabled.) Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container service which offers a
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Container Apps, Categories: Features, Regions & Datacenters

Capture a JVM heap dump for Java apps running on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:01:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Container Apps, Categories:

Using NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:53:00 Z

TOC Introduction to Triton System Architecture Architecture Focus of This Tutorial Setup Azure Resources File and Directory Structure ARM Template ARM Template From Azure Port...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Enhancing Security for Azure Container Apps with Aqua Security

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Security

Leveraging Azure Container Apps Labels for Environment-based Routing and Feature Testing

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:30:00 Z

Azure Container Apps offers a powerful feature through labels and traffic splitting that can help developers easily manage multiple versions of an app, route traffic based on different environments, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

DeepSeek-R1 on Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:12:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories:

New Features in Azure Container Apps VS Code extension

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:46:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

JavaScript code interpreter dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:00:33 Z

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions offers serverless, isolated sandboxes for executing untrusted code. The latest update includes support for native JavaScript code execution in public preview. This new JavaScript code interpreter augments the existing
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

.NET 9

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:00:36 Z

As of November 12, 2024, NET 9 is now generally available for download. Azure PaaS services, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, and more, now fully support .NET 9.Customers can now leverage the enhanced capabilities of .NE
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, Logic Apps, Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, App Service, SignalR Service, Container Apps, Categories: Features, Open Source

Planned maintenance in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Container Apps now offers planned maintenance in public preview. This feature allows you to control when non-critical updates are applied to your Container Apps environment to minimize downtime and impact to applications. Non-critical updates includ
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Container Apps now support Serverless GPUs in public preview. Serverless GPUs enable you to seamlessly run your AI workloads on-demand with automatic scaling, optimized cold start, per-second billing with scale down to zero when not in use, and redu
Update Type: Preview, Services: Machine Learning, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Private endpoint support in Azure Container Apps for workload profiles environments

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Private endpoints are now supported in public preview for workload profile environments in Azure Container Apps. This enables customers to connect to their Container Apps environment using a private IP address in their Azure Virtual Network, eliminating e
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Network, Azure Front Door, Private Link, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

The dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps is a fast, sandboxed, ephemeral compute, suitable for running AI-generated, untrusted code at scale in hostile multi-tenancy scenarios. Each session has full compute isolation using Hyper-V. There are two mod
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

What’s new in Azure Container Apps at Ignite’24

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:36:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Introducing Serverless GPUs on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:33:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions general availability, and more

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:00 Z

Python code interpreter and custom sessions are now GA. JavaScript code interpreter in public preview. Microsoft Copilot uses Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Optimizing Docker Images for Java Applications on Azure Container Apps

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:00:00 Z

Introduction In the cloud-native era, the need for rapid application startup and automated scaling has become more critical, especially for Java applications, which require enhanced solutions to meet these demands effectively. In a previous blog post Accelerating Java Applications on Azure Kubernetes Service with CRaC, we explored using CRaC technology to address these challenges. CRaC enables faster application startup and reduces recovery times, thus facilitating efficient scaling operations. In this blog post, we’ll delve further into optimizing container images specifically for Azure Container Apps (ACA), by leveraging multi-stage builds, Spring Boot Layer Tools, and Class Data Sharing (CDS) to create highly optimized Docker images. By combining these techniques, you’ll see improvements in both the image footprint and the startup performance of your Java applications on ACA. These improvements make Java applications more agile and responsive to frequent cloud-native deployments, ensuring they can keep pace with modern operational demands Key Takeaways After testing different Docker optimization techniques, we observed the following improvements on Azure Container Apps: Multi-stage builds reduced the image size by 33%, leading to faster image pulls. Spring Boot Layer Tools further optimized the build process by reducing unnecessary rebuilds, slightly improving both image pull and startup times. Class Data Sharing (CDS) provided the most impactful benefit, reducing application startup time by 27%, significantly enhancing runtime performance. These optimizations not only reduce the size and pull time of the image but also make deployments more efficient, saving both time and resources. Overview of Optimization Techniques Multi-Stage Builds Multi-stage builds are a powerful Docker feature that allows you to create leaner images by reducing the layers that make it to the final build. In the first stage, you can perform all heavy operations, suc
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Modernising Registrar Technology: Implementing EPP with Kotlin, Spring & Azure Container Apps

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:57:11 Z

Introduction In the domain management industry, technological advancement has often been a slow and cautious process, lagging behind the rapid innovations seen in other tech sectors. This measured pace is understandable given the critical role domain infrastructure plays in the global internet ecosystem. However, as we stand on the cusp of a new era in web technology, it is becoming increasingly clear that modernization should be a priority. This blog post embarks on a journey to demystify one of the most critical yet often misunderstood components of the industry: the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). Throughout this blog, we will dive deep into the intricacies of EPP, exploring its structure, commands and how it fits into the broader domain management system. We will walk through the process of building a robust EPP client using Kotlin and Spring Boot. Then, we will take our solutions to the next level by containerizing with Docker and deploying it to Azure Container Apps, showcasing how modern cloud technologies can improve the reliability and scalability of your domain management system. We will also set up a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, ensuring that your EPP implementation remains up-to-date and easily maintainable. By the end of this blog, you will be able to provision domains programatically via an endpoint, and have the code foundation ready to create dozens of other domain management commands (e.g. updating nameservers, updating contact info, renewing and transferring domains). Who it is for This guide is tailored primarily for registrars — services who serve as the crucial intermediary between domain registrants (the end user who wishes to claim their piece of internet real estate) and the registry systems that manage those domains. While the concepts we will explore have broad applications across the domain industry, the perspective throughout will be firmly rooted in the registrar's role. The fun
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Services, Management

Azure Spring Apps will be retired on March 31, 2028

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Spring Apps is a fully managed service for running Java Spring applications, jointly built by Microsoft and VMware by Broadcom. After careful consideration and analysis, Microsoft and Broadcom have made the difficult decision to retire the Azure Spr
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Spring Apps, Container Apps, Categories: Services, Retirements

Build and deploy full-stack Java Web Applications on Azure Container Apps with JHipster

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:30:51 Z

As full-stack Java developers look to modernize their applications for the cloud, finding a platform that offers scalability, flexibility, and strong support for the Java ecosystem is essential. Azure Container Apps provides an ideal environment for running Java applications, offering built-in Java Support features like automatic JVM memory fit, managed Spring Components, and integrated JVM monitoring. By pairing this with JHipster, a powerful tool to generate and deploy Spring Boot applications, you can easily build, deploy, and scale your full-stack web applications on Azure. In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to use JHipster to deploy full-stack web applications on Azure Container Apps, featuring a React front-end, a Spring Boot back-end, and various database options such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Additionally, we will guide you on how to enable the Java stack feature after deployment to take advantage of enhanced Java support. What is JHipster? JHipster is an open-source development platform designed to generate, develop, and deploy modern web applications and microservices architecture. It stands for "Java Hipster" and provides a scaffolding for full-stack applications using popular frameworks and technologies. As one of the most successful application generators, JHipster helps developers rapidly create production-ready, secure applications by combining best practices in modern Java development with front-end frameworks. Why Java on Azure Container Apps? Java remains a dominant programming language for building enterprise-grade applications, and Azure Container Apps has built-in supports for the Java ecosystem comprehensively. Here’s why Azure Container Apps is a great fit for Java applications: Seamless Java Integration: Azure Container Apps natively supports Spring Boot and other popular Java frameworks, ensuring easy deployment and performance tuning of Java applications. Integrated JVM Monitoring and Diagnostics: Leverage Azure Monitor w
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, App Service, Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories: Features, Services

Java on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

You can now leverage managed Java components for seamless app-to-app communication. Enhance your monitor and diagnostic experience with managed Spring Boot Admin, dynamic logger, and embedded Java metrics in Azure Monitor.Learn more.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Java on Azure Container Apps

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Experience a new way to run Java applications on Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Announcing the General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:49:04 Z

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed, serverless container platform that enables you to build, deploy, and run containerized applications. With Azure Container Apps, you can elastically scale down to 0 and expand as needed. You can design resilient microservices with unified networking and leverage GPU-enabled workload profiles to run AI-powered apps anytime anywhere. All of this means your developer gets to spend a lot more time writing code for your business and not get sidetracked by things that don’t directly contribute to your success. To take things to the next level, we’ve created a wide range of productivity experiences to help you configure, monitor and troubleshoot Java apps, which are now generally available. Applications, especially microservices, need some type of middleware to facilitate service-to-service communication. With Azure Container Apps, you can use Spring Cloud Service Registry for service discovery, Spring Cloud Config server to externalize app configurations, as well as monitor metrics and download dump files from Spring Boot Admin. These components are fully managed and exist in the Azure Container Apps environment. They’re readily available to serve your Java apps, so you can simply use them and let Azure handle the operational details. As a developer or DevOps engineer, you no longer need to worry about mundane tasks such as installation, version upgrades, or HA when it comes to running managed Java components in Azure Container Apps. To ensure applications operate in top conditions and meet desired levels of throughput and availability, it’s very important that you monitor various aspects of application metrics. Azure container apps is natively integrated with Azure Monitor, providing out-of-box JVM and Tomcat metrics alongside with container metrics. This already covers the majority of diagnostic scenarios running containerized apps in the cloud. However, to tackle more complex issues like identifying memory
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Azure Spring Apps, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Deploying .NET Apps to Azure Container Apps with One Command, azd up

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:15:13 Z

In my previous blog posts of containerising .NET apps and Function apps, I discussed how to containerise .NET apps and Azure Functions apps with and without Dockerfile. However, deploying these containerised apps to Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a different story. Since its release in May 2023, Azure Developer CLI (azd) has evolved significantly. azd nowadays even automatically generates Bicep files for us to immediately provision and deploy applications to Azure. With this feature, you only need the azd up command for provisioning and deployment. Throughout this post, I'm going to discuss how to provision and deploy .NET apps including Azure Functions to ACA through just one command, azd up. You can find a sample code from this GitHub repository. Prerequisites There are a few prerequisites to containerise .NET apps effectively. .NET SDK 8.0+ Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code + C# Dev Kit Azure Developer CLI Azure Functions Core Tools Docker Desktop Running the app locally The sample app repository already includes the following apps: Blazor app as a frontend ASP.NET Core Web API app as a backend Azure Functions app as another backend Let's make sure those apps running properly on your local machine. In order to run those apps locally, open three terminal windows and run the following commands on each terminal: # Terminal 1 - ASP.NET Core Web API dotnet run --project ./ApiApp # Terminal 2 - Azure Functions cd ./FuncApp dotnet clean && func start # Terminal 3 - Blazor app dotnet run --project ./WebApp Open your web browser and navigate to https://localhost:5001 to see the Blazor app running. Then navigate to https://localhost:5001/weather to see the weather data fetched from the ApiApp and the greetings populated from the FuncApp. Now, let's start using azd to provision and deploy these apps to ACA. Make sure that you've already logged in to Azure with the azd auth login command. azd init – Initialisation In order to provision and
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:16:48 Z

When building HTTP APIs, it can be tempting to synchronously run long-running tasks in a request handler. This approach can lead to slow responses, timeouts, and resource exhaustion. If a request times out or a connection is dropped, the client won't know if the operation completed or not. For CPU-bound tasks, this approach can also bog down the server, making it unresponsive to other requests. In this post, we'll look at how to build an asynchronous HTTP API with Azure Container Apps. We'll create a simple API that implements the Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern: with the API hosted in a container app and the asynchronous processing done in a job. This approach provides a much more robust and scalable solution for long-running tasks. Long-running API requests in Azure Container Apps Azure Container Apps is a serverless container platform. It's ideal for hosting a variety of workloads, including HTTP APIs. Like other serverless and PaaS platforms, Azure Container Apps is designed for short-lived requests — its ingress currently has a maximum timeout of 4 minutes. As an autoscaling platform, it's designed to scale dynamically based on the number of incoming requests. When scaling in, replicas are removed. Long-running requests can terminate abruptly if the replica handling the request is removed. Azure Container Apps jobs Azure Container Apps has two types of resources: apps and jobs. Apps are long-running services that respond to HTTP requests or events. Jobs are tasks that run to completion and can be triggered by a schedule or an event. Jobs can also be triggered programmatically. This makes them a good fit for implementing asynchronous processing in an HTTP API. The API can start a job execution to process the request and return a response immediately. The job can then take as long as it needs to complete the processing. The client can poll a status endpoint on the app to check if the job has completed and get the result. The Asynchronous Request-Re
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Services

Easily deploy .NET apps to Azure Container Apps with default configuration for data protection

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:49:56 Z

The Azure Container Apps and .NET team have made it easier than ever to deploy your .NET application by supporting automatic configuration for data protection. This support is currently available as an opt-in feature in the Container Apps API version 2024-02-02-preview. This blog post will discuss the feature and what it enables, how to determine if your application is correctly configured, and how to enable configuration for data protection across a variety of .NET versions. What is data protection? Many ASP.NET Core apps rely on a feature called data protection, which is a cryptographic API to protect data using methods like key management and rotation. By default, it requires additional configuration in both Azure and in application code to function correctly when hosted in Container Apps. If data protection isn’t configured, the application will appear to function correctly but will experience bugs when the application scales out to multiple replicas. For detailed information about the data protection feature, read here. Configuring data protection for your .NET Application The process of configuring the data protection feature varies depending on the version of .NET you are using. .NET Aspire Aspire applications deployed using the Azure Developer CLI (azd) will have data protection configured by default. .NET 8 and up If you are using ASP.NET Core v9.0.0-preview.2.24128.4 and later and ASP.NET Core v8.0.4 and newer, you can configure data protection using ARM and Bicep. This can be done with turning on the new `autoConfigureDataProtection` property, which will allow ASP.NET Core data protection keys to be automatically managed by the platform. .NET 7 and under If you are using ASP.NET Core with a lower version than previously described, you will have to configure data protection manually. We recommend upgrading to one of the supported .NET versions or doing so using ARM. Next Steps Congratulations, you now ensured that your .NET application has
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Management

Public Preview: Managed Java component (Admin for Spring) in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now monitor and configure Spring Boot web applications using managed Admin Java component
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Managed Java component (Admin for Spring) in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now monitor and configure Spring Boot web applications using managed Admin Java component
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Managed identity support for scaling rules in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now use managed identities in your scale rules in Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features, Security

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for peer-to-peer encryption

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now encrypt network traffic transmitted between applications within an Azure Container Apps environment using peer-to-peer-encryption.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features, Security

Generally Available: Support for Azure Key Vault certificates in Azure Container Apps

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for Azure Container Apps at the environment level.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Key Vault, Container Apps, Categories: Features, Security

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure Government Cloud Virginia

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Container Apps is now available in public preview in Azure Government Cloud Virginia.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure Government Cloud Virginia

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:47:53 Z

Status: In Preview Azure Container Apps, a managed serverless container service, is now available in Azure Government Cloud. Azure Container Apps offers an ideal platform for application developers who want to run apps and microservices in containers without managing infrastructure. Azure Container Apps is built on a foundation of powerful open-source technology including Kubernetes, KEDA, Dapr, and Envoy. To learn more about Azure Container Apps, please see the getting started guide on Microsoft Learn. Products: Azure Container Apps ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Enhancing Performance in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:09:36 Z

Azure Container Apps is a powerful platform for running serverless, containerized applications and microservices. In the team’s ongoing commitment to improving Azure Container Apps’ performance, we’ve recently made significant improvements to make the scaling and load balancing behavior of Azure Container Apps more intuitive and better align with customer expectations to meet their performance needs. Hopefully, some of the insights from our experience in working with Envoy and KEDA will be helpful to you. Load Balancing Algorithm Update In the past, Azure Container Apps relied on the ring hash load balancing algorithm to distribute incoming requests across containers. Ring hash aims for minimal distribution by generating a hash based on request properties to match it with a stable upstream instance. However, as a result, some instances will receive an uneven share of requests. This is especially apparent during load tests where there are a small number of clients and could lead to potential bottlenecks. Switching to Round Robin To address this issue, we transitioned Azure Container Apps to use the round robin load balancing algorithm when session affinity is not enabled for an app. These are some of the benefits you can expect to see: Uniform Request Distribution: Round robin evenly distributes requests among containers, reducing the likelihood that one replica gets overloaded and helps utilize all resources effectively. Improved Scalability: With a balanced request load, Azure Container Apps can scale more effectively. Predictable Behavior: Developers can now rely on more consistent behavior across containers, simplifying troubleshooting and monitoring. We’ve observed a significant improvement in overall system performance since implementing this change, and our customers can expect better resource utilization. When session affinity is enabled, Azure Container Apps still uses a ring hashing algorithm to match sequential requests with a consistent upstream cl
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Services

Azure Container Apps Newsletter – June 2024

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:00:29 Z

Welcome to this month's Azure Container Apps newsletter! We'll share the latest news and community highlights for Container Apps every month here on the Apps on Azure blog. Azure Container Apps monthly community live stream Our next live stream is June 12, 2024 at 11:00AM PDT (18:00 UTC). Join us and our special guests to learn all about running untrusted code in sandboxes with dynamic sessions on Azure Container Apps. Subscribe to the Azure Developers YouTube channel! Community highlights Some great content created by our amazing community: Blogs What Azure Container Apps Is Not: Clearing the Confusion Azure Container Apps - Overview Deploy 1Password SCIM Bridge on Azure Container Apps Simplifying .NET microservices with Dapr and Azure Container Apps Running a Playwright scheduled job with Azure Container Apps Project Legion Automatic Memory Fit for Java Apps on Azure Container Apps Videos Build Intelligent Apps with Serverless Containers on Azure Container Apps From Day Zero To Production with Azure Container Apps Goodbye Azure Kubernetes Service! Hello Azure Container Apps! - Johnny Hooyberghs Azure Container Apps Docker Containers first deployment with Azure Front Door Azure Container Apps uncovered: Scenarios, workloads, and portability How to configure HTTP ingress in Azure Container Apps (playlist) Working with Workload Profiles in Azure Container Apps Build a multi-LLM chat application with Azure Container Apps Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions New: Secure Sandboxes at Scale with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions Bridging the chasm between your ML and app devs (Semantic Kernel) Secure code execution in LlamaIndex with Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions Integrating LangChain with Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions Using Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions from Java Read about all our Microsoft Build 2024 announcements! For more, check out our product roadmap. Get notified when w
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Front Door, Container Apps, Categories: Services

Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now access the Aspire dashboard in Azure Portal for your Azure Container Apps project.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public preview: Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now now have easy access to fast, ephemeral, sandboxed compute on Azure without managing infrastructure.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Java application log levels can now be set dynamically in Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Use Azure Monitor to see Java metrics in Azure Container Apps and take advantage of all the Azure Monitor features.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features, Security

Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Key Vault, Container Apps, Categories: Features, Security

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Retirements

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.
Update Type: GA, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0700

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team is excited to announce Radius, a cloud-native application platform that enables developers and platform engineers who support them to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications that follow corporate best practices for cost, operations, and security, by default.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Pricing & Offerings

GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features, Regions & Datacenters

Azure CNI with Cilium: Most scalable and performant container networking in the Cloud

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0700

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure CNI powered by Cilium.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Build next-generation, AI-powered applications on Microsoft Azure

Tue, 23 May 2023 08:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Microsoft Build 2023—the event where we celebrate the developer community. This year, we’ll dive deep into the latest technologies across application development and AI that are enabling the next wave of innovation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Azure DevOps, Container Apps, Categories:

Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview

Mon, 15 May 2023 10:00:00 -0700

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud, providing end to end storage management and orchestration for stateful applications to run efficiently at scale on Azure.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Storage, Container Apps, Azure Elastic SAN, Categories:

Innovate with cloud-native apps and open source on Azure

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite. I’m thrilled to share how Microsoft is empowering you to innovate with cloud-native and open source on Azure. The growth of Kubernetes and cloud-native applications in Azure and the broader technology has been nothing short of humbling and awe-inspiring. Open innovation is at the heart of nearly every innovation in cloud computing. The cloud-native ecosystem empowers people to build applications that make it easy to take advantage of this innovation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Container Apps, Categories: