Do you want to run containerized microservice applications with features like autoscaling, HTTPS ingress and traffic routing, but don't want the complexity of the full Kubernetes platform? Or maybe you just don't need the full flexibility that Kubernetes offers and rather trade that in for ease of use. If so, meet Azure Container Apps (ACA): an Azure service that lets you run containerized apps on a serverless platform.

To further ease your life as a developer, ACA includes full support for Dapr, the CNCF project for building portable and reliable microservices.

In this demo-heavy session you’ll learn how to run your microservice apps on ACA while solving common distributed systems problems such as service location, state management and pub/sub with Dapr.

Sander is a Microsoft Azure MVP and author of 'Dapr for .NET Developers' (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/dapr-for-net-developers/). He's the maintainer for the eShopOnDapr reference application (https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnDapr) and has worked closely with the ACA team to add ACA support.