ACI's top-level unit, comparable to a Kubernetes pod: one or more containers placed on the same host, sharing ports, an IP, volumes and a lifecycle; if it holds several containers, it must run Linux.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Container Instances
Way to run container groups without any cluster, billed per second. It offers neither autoscaling nor spreading across zones, and Azure Machine Learning treats it as a legacy v1 deployment target.
- Pod
The smallest thing Kubernetes deploys: a group of one or more containers that share storage and networking. Pods are normally created through a Deployment instead of by hand.
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
Related terms
- az container create
Azure CLI command that deploys a container group to Azure Container Instances. Its options cover the image, exposed ports, a VNet subnet, the restart policy, and registry access through credentials or
--acr-identity.