The App Service offering for running containers, with Easy Auth, autoscaling and continuous deployment from ACR built in.
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Terms in this definition
- App Service
Managed PaaS hosting for web apps and Web App for Containers, run in a sandbox without OS access. Deployment slots and autoscale start at the Standard tier.
- App Service Authentication
Code-free sign-in feature of App Service, also called Easy Auth, supporting Microsoft Entra ID along with other identity providers.
- Autoscaling
A classic compute option where you give a minimum and maximum worker count and Azure Databricks adjusts the number of workers within that range to match the load.
- CD
Practice of releasing every change automatically, such as an ACR webhook that redeploys a containerised web app when a new image is pushed.
- Azure Container Registry
Private Azure registry for container images. Images can be geo-replicated, cleaned up by retention policies and built by ACR Tasks, while webhooks let a push kick off continuous deployment.
Related terms
- Auto swap
An App Service deployment slot option that, after each deployment and once warm-up finishes, swaps that slot into production without manual action. Linux web apps and Web App for Containers can't use it.