Once we're thinking about containerization and deploying containerized applications, Kubernetes often comes to mind as the most popular and relevant service that gets this job done. But as with anything in tech industry Kubernetes has its own trade-offs, even if it's a managed Kubernetes service, and for many use cases it may be an overkill. Azure Container Apps may be a more suitable, straightforward alternative and in this session we will take a look at how Azure Container Apps differs from Kubernetes/AKS and when it would make sense to utilize this service, as well as what limitations it currently has.

This will be a hands-on, demo-heavy session where we will take a full journey from having just the application code and application container image on our hands to creating, configuring and deploying the containerized application to a production-like environment with Azure Container Apps. As part of this journey we will focus on some of the best practices to get the application up and running in Azure Container Apps, just as you would do in an enterprise setting. This journey will include implementing infrastructure-as-code with Bicep for Azure Container Apps and related resources, workflow for provisioning the resources with GitHub Actions and configuration details for securing and optimizing Azure Container Apps.