Azure Container

Container technology is growing popularly among developers these days and we wonder why. Containerization of software application allows building and deloying mordern applicaiton that is scalable

According to Microsoft a container is a standard package of software that bundles an application'c code together with the related configuration files and libraries, and with the dependencies required for the app to run. This allows developers and IT pros to deploy applications seamlessly across environements.

Advantages of Containerization

Solve configurations error and delpoyment error that arizes from changing your software configuration or environment. A software applicaition, its dependencies, its os and its configuration are packaged together.

Walkthrough of Deploying a Containerized Web Server on Azure Registry

Download a sample react application code base with docker file from here. I downloaded the react-nginx project
Bulid and Run the docker image with the command below utilizing docker compose
```
docker compose up -d
```
Go to http://localhost to test the application. Take note of the port mapping.
You can stop the container with the command
```
docker container stop <container_id>
```
Then remove the container with the command
```
docker container rm <container_id>
```
List the images using the command
```
    docker images 
```

Now you can go to the Azure portal. Create a resource group.
Search for Container Registry. Create a container registry. I created a container registry called azcontainer7
In your local machine, login to azure portal using the command

    az login


az acr login --name <name-of-registry>

Tag the local image with the registy url and repository name using the command below

docker tag <image-name> <registry-url>/<repository-name>

Push the image to the repository using the command

 docker push <registry-url>/<repository-name>

Below is an image of the commands I ran to push to the container registry

Now go to you resource group and create a new container app resource
I ran into an issue of Azure unable to retrieve the image in Azure Container Registry because admin credentials are disabled

Go back to the ACR dashboard, Click on properties in the settings tab and enable Admin user
Now we can create the container app using the image in ACR
If you run into a broken link, check if ingress target port matches the container app port

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Azure Container

Advantages of Containerization

Walkthrough of Deploying a Containerized Web Server on Azure Registry