Instead of having to introduce a container registry (Azure Container Registry or another), is it possible to use the Service Fabric image store to host container images and then reference them from the Service Fabric container project's ServiceManifest inside <ContainerHost><ImageName>...? Documentation on both Service Fabric containers and the image store is limited.
No, that is not possible. Container images are not similar to Application packages.
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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.
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Can we use Azure Container registry as a general purpose artifactory repository like VSTS Package Manager or Artifactory? If so, what are the common gotchas/pitfalls of doing so? Why is it (not) advisable?
Azure Container Register is a managed Docker registry service based on
the open-source Docker Registry 2.0. Create and maintain Azure
container registries to store and manage your private Docker container
images.
It seems that Azure Container Register cannot be used as a general purpose Artifactory repository. You can get more details from the document here.
ACR is focused on containers. That said, we are adding Helm Repository Support, which itself are just blobs. While we're not ready to take on generic artifacts as a first class experience, you can push images that derive FROM scratch.
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I am trying to build two different services which will be running on Azure Web Apps for Containers. I am creating docker images and storing it in Azure Container Registry. I want to share single persistent storage between these two services. I understood from blogs that you can mount /home directory but could not be shared between two services.
There is plugin for docker Cloudstor, I can create the volume but not sure how we can utilize this generated volume in Web Apps For Containers. The app service runs the command for docker, does anybody know how we can use the volume created using the plugin?
In My Opinion the webapps for containers should not be there. I think it is better to get a docker host machine as vm and then work with normal docker features. this is also the way microsoft describes in their docs for multi-docker szenarios. https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/virtual-machines/linux/docker-compose-quickstart
Things that should microsoft do:
give kudo a proper docker cli
map storages to docker volumes via azure dashboard/azure cli
Create a storage account and mount Fileshare into the docker image somewhere under /home
This will be easiest if the two service instances are in the same resource group as the storage account.
What is your reason for sharing a single storage instance?
Without experimenting I can't guarantee the same storage container can be shared between two app services. Depends on your needs. I expect two containers in the same storage account can be mounted into your two docker images.
Without knowing a little more this is the most I can contribute. All the best.
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.
We have an existing docker container which is running an dotnet core website. Requirement is to move this container to Azure and run website over cloud.
All tutorials or Howtos point at creating new docker image.Can someone provide me a link or direction to achieve this requirement.
Just push the image to a docker repository that is accesible externally and pull the image from there. Depending on what you use (vms\webapp\container instances) procedures for pulling will be different. For vm's - regular procedure, for webapps - this for container instances - this