I saw that you can run containers using your own Dockerfile or docker-compose by executing Azure CLI.
But is it possible to specify a Dockerfile or dockercompose which will contain a link to the image and also some variables for the run-tim but through the Azure Portal and not Azure CLI?
I am referring to ACI type of containers.
Thanks
you can built the docker container locally or with a CI/CD pipeline and upload it to a container registry (Azure CR or Docker hub).
when creating an Azure Container Instance you can retrieve it from this repository
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I am trying to create a CI/CD pipeline for a multi-container solution implemented via docker-compose.yml. The goal is to run a container group in Azure Container Instances.
I went with this task DockerCompose#0 for the release pipeline, and the steps to build containers and to deploy them to Azure Container Registry are straighforward.
But, I cannot figure out if it's possible to configure this task to deploy and run containers in ACI. There is an option to Run the Images, but the images are run on the agent's docker host:
How do I instruct this task that the containers to be run in ACI? I know there is a way to do that via Docker CLI with a step to connect to the ACI context, but I can't figure out how to switch to the ACI context from the DevOps pipeline.
How do I instruct this task that the containers to be run in ACI?
Ans:
The new release pipeline needs to start with an empty job and provide a name for the release definition. Next, we need to add artefacts to our application. Since all we want to deploy is a Docker image located in the ACR, select the artefact type as the Azure Container Registry (ACR).
Here is the blog tutorial to Configure CI/CD for Azure Container Instances using Azure / Azure DevOps Pipelines given by #mohitgoyal.
I'm trying to deploy a ShinyProxy in a Docker container to Azure. Also, I have the ShinyApp repositories in Azure DevOps. Every time a developer updates the code in a repository, I want to the CD/CI deploy the new code creating a Docker container to Azure.
Also, I think, I have to create an internal Docker network between the ShinyProxy and the app.
How can I create this process? Is there any tutorial how to setup a pipeline in Azure DevOps and run a ShinyProxy on Azure?
After a lot of research and study, I found how to create a full end-to-end deployment. I have created a complete step-by-step guide in my blog.
I hope it could help other guys.
Do you want to deploy your app to Azure Container Registry?
If so, below are the main steps you need to do:
Create a container registry on the Azure Portal.
Create a Docker registry service connection on the project settings to enable your pipeline to push images into the container registry.
Create the pipeline that gets source from your repository.
Add the Docker task in the pipeline,
select the Docker registry service connection created in above step as the 'Container registry'.
select 'buildAndPush' as the 'command'.
To view more details, you can reference to "Build and push to Azure Container Registry".
I want to deploy a container image onto Service Fabric cluster running on Azure. I have already pushed image on Azure Container Registry. Using command line interface, how can I deploy container image into Service Fabric Cluster running on Azure?
I looked at sfctl command but could not find anything helpful.
An easy way to do this is by using sfctl compose create.
With this command you deploy a container to the cluster by using a docker-compose file.
Getting started...
I have a docker image in my Azure Container Registry and a Web App For Containers(Linux). Now, I want to create a release pipeline which should be able to deploy that container for Azure Container Registry to Web App For Container. I know I can do this manually but I need to Automate this process through Azure DevOps.
I was trying to make a release pipeline to deploy docker image on Azure web app for container and I made that pipeline by following this tutorial.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/apps/cd/deploy-docker-webapp?view=azdevops&viewFallbackFrom=vsts
I hope this can help others as well. Thank you
I have a simple docker container which runs just fine on my local machine. I was hoping to find an easy checklist how I could publish and run my docker container on Azure, but couldn't find one. I only found https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-azure/, but this document kind of leaves me alone when it comes to actually copy my local docker container to Azure. Isn't that supposed to be very easy? Can anybody point me in the right direction how to do this?
But it is really easy.. once you know where to find the docs :-). I would take the azure docs as a starting point as there are multiple options when it comes to hosting containers in Azure:
If you're looking for this...
Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes -> Azure Container Service (AKS)
Easily run containers on Azure with a single command -> Container Instances
Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments
-> Container Registry
Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux
-> Service Fabric
Deploy web applications on Linux using containers
-> App Service
Based on your info I would suggest storing the image using the Azure Container Registry and host the container using Azure Container Instances. No need for a VM to manage this way.
There is an excellent tutorial you could follow (I skipped the first 1 step since it involves creating a docker image, you already have one)
Another complete guide of pushing your image to azure and create a running container can be found here.
The good thing about Azure Container Instances is that you only pay for what you actually use. The Azure Container Registry is a private image repository hosted in Azure, if course you could also use Docker Hub but using ACR makes it all really simple.
In order to run an image, you simply need to configure a new VM with the Docker Daemon. I personally found Azure's documentation to be pretty complex. Assuming you are not trying to scale your service across instances, I would recommend using docker-machine rather than the Azure guide.
docker-machine is a CLI tool published by the Docker team which automatically installs the Docker Daemon (and all the dependencies) on a host. So all you would need to do is input your Azure subscription and it will automatically create a VM configured appropriately.
In terms of publishing the image, Azure is probably not the right solution. I would recommend one of two things:
Use Docker Hub, which serves as a free hosted Docker image repository. You can simply push images to Docker Hub (or even have them built directly from your Git repository).
Configure a CD tool, such as TravisCI or CircleCI, and use these to build your image and push directly to your deployment.
To run your docker image inside ACI, You can use of Azure Container Registry.
Step0: Create Azure Container Registry
Step1: Include a Dockerfile in your application code
Step2: Build the code along with the Dockerfile with a tag and create a
Docker image ( docker build -t imagename:tag .)
Step3: Push the Docker image to Azure container Registry with a image name and tag.
Step4: Now create a ACI, while creating, choose the image type as private, provide the image name, tag, image registry login server, image registry username, image registry password ( these details can be found under access keys tab inside Azure Container Registry)
Step5: choose running os as linux, in network step you can give an dns name for your ACI, then click on review & create
Step6: once ACI gets created you can go to overview and you can see fqdn, using fqdn you can access your application running inside Azure Container Instance.