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Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applications with built-in autoscaling, traffic splitting, and Dapr integration. It enables developers to deploy containers without managing complex infrastructure while supporting event-driven architectures and microservices patterns.

Azure Container Apps publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Container Apps API, Jobs API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Azure, Containers, Dapr, Kubernetes, and Microservices.

The Azure Container Apps catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Azure Container Apps’ developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 28 more developer resources.

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65.7/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
5 APIs 8 Features 6 Use Cases
AzureContainersDaprKubernetesMicroservicesServerless

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Composite quality — 65.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Azure Container Apps Authentication API

Manage container app authentication

Azure Container Apps Container Apps API

Manage container apps

Azure Container Apps Jobs API

Manage container app jobs

Azure Container Apps Managed Environments API

Manage container app environments

Azure Container Apps Revisions API

Manage container app revisions

Postman Collections 5

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Azure Container Apps Authentication API

POSTMAN

Azure Authentication Container Apps API

POSTMAN

Azure Container Apps Authentication Jobs API

POSTMAN

Azure Container Apps Authentication Managed Environments API

POSTMAN

Azure Container Apps Authentication Revisions API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Azure Container Apps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 13

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Azure Container Apps Activate Latest Revision

Find the most recent revision of an app, inspect it, and activate it if it is inactive.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Audit App Security

Read an app, then enumerate its secrets and authentication configurations for a security review.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Decommission App

Delete a container app and confirm it no longer appears in the resource group listing.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Deploy App Into New Environment

Create a managed environment, wait for it, then create a container app inside it and wait for that too.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Enable Dapr Sidecar

Enable the Dapr sidecar on a container app, wait for the new revision to provision, then list revisions.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Provision and Run Job

Create a manually triggered job, wait until it is provisioned, then start an execution.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Provision Container App

Verify the target environment is ready, create a container app, and poll until it is provisioned.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Provision Managed Environment

Create a managed environment and poll its provisioning state until it reaches Succeeded.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Restart Active Revision

Restart the active revision of an app and poll its revision replicas until it is running again.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Rotate and Verify Secrets

Write a new secret value to an app, wait for provisioning, then list secrets to confirm it is present.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Run Existing Job

Confirm a job is provisioned and manually triggerable, then start an execution.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Shift Revision Traffic

List an app's revisions, shift ingress traffic to a chosen revision, then wait for the change to apply.

ARAZZO

Azure Container Apps Update App and List Revisions

Roll out a new image to a container app, wait for provisioning, then list the resulting revisions.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Azure Container Apps Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Azure Container Apps Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Azure Container Apps Finops

FINOPS

Features 8

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Serverless Containers

Run containers without managing servers or Kubernetes cluster infrastructure.

Built-in Autoscaling

Automatically scale based on HTTP traffic, event messages, or custom KEDA scalers.

Traffic Splitting

Gradually shift traffic between container revisions for canary deployments and A/B testing.

Dapr Integration

Built-in support for the Dapr distributed application runtime for service discovery and state management.

Managed Environments

Shared networking and logging infrastructure for groups of container apps.

Dynamic Sessions

Secure, ephemeral code-interpreter and custom container sessions with data-plane REST APIs.

Jobs Support

Schedule and run containerized batch jobs on demand or on a schedule.

GPU Support

Deploy AI/ML workloads on GPU-enabled container instances.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Azure Container Apps Context

13 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Azure Container Apps API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Azure Container Apps API Rules

23 rules · 7 errors 13 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 12

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AuthConfig

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Configuration

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerApp

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerAppSecret

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Container

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobExecution

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobExecutionTemplate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Job

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagedEnvironment

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Revision

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Secret

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Template

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 12

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Azure Container Apps Auth Config Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Configuration Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Container App Secret Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Container App Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Container Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Job Execution Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Job Execution Template Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Job Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Managed Environment Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Revision Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Secret Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Apps Template Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 12

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Azure Container Apps Auth Config Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Configuration Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Container App Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Container App Secret Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Container Example

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Job Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Job Execution Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Job Execution Template Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Managed Environment Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Revision Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Secret Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Apps Template Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Azure Container Apps Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Azure Container Apps Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Azure Container Apps Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Azure Container Apps Agentic Access

22 operations · 12 acting

22 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers build with this provider.

Microservices Architecture

Deploy and scale individual microservices independently with built-in service discovery.

API Backend Deployment

Host REST APIs with automatic HTTPS, custom domains, and traffic management.

Event-Driven Processing

Process messages from Service Bus, Event Hubs, and storage queues with KEDA-based scaling.

AI and ML Workloads

Run AI inference workloads on GPU-enabled container instances with dynamic sessions.

Background Jobs

Run scheduled and on-demand batch jobs without maintaining dedicated infrastructure.

Dapr Microservices

Build microservices with Dapr for pub/sub messaging, service invocation, and state management.

Integrations 7

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Azure Kubernetes Service

Share underlying Kubernetes infrastructure while abstracting cluster management complexity.

Azure Container Registry

Pull container images directly from private ACR registries with managed identity.

Azure Service Bus

Trigger container app scaling based on Service Bus queue depth.

Azure Event Hubs

Process streaming data from Event Hubs with auto-scaling.

GitHub Actions

Deploy container apps directly from GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.

Dapr

Built-in Dapr runtime support for distributed systems patterns.

Azure Monitor

Native integration with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for observability.

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Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Signup
Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
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Design & Contract 16

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace
PostmanWorkspace
 GitHubRepository
GitHubRepository
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 Support
Support
 FAQ
FAQ

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: azure-container-apps
name: Azure Container Apps
description: Azure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applications
  with built-in autoscaling, traffic splitting, and Dapr integration. It enables developers to deploy containers without managing
  complex infrastructure while supporting event-driven architectures and microservices patterns.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/azure-container-apps.png
tags:
- Azure
- Containers
- Dapr
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Serverless
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: azure-container-apps:azure-container-apps-authentication-api
  name: Azure Container Apps Authentication API
  description: Manage container app authentication
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-apps
  tags:
  - Authentication
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resource-manager/containerapps/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
- aid: azure-container-apps:azure-container-apps-container-apps-api
  name: Azure Container Apps Container Apps API
  description: Manage container apps
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-apps
  tags:
  - Container Apps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-apps-container-apps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-container-app-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resource-manager/containerapps/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
- aid: azure-container-apps:azure-container-apps-jobs-api
  name: Azure Container Apps Jobs API
  description: Manage container app jobs
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-apps
  tags:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-apps-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-container-app-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resource-manager/containerapps/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
- aid: azure-container-apps:azure-container-apps-managed-environments-api
  name: Azure Container Apps Managed Environments API
  description: Manage container app environments
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-apps
  tags:
  - Managed Environments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-apps-managed-environments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-container-app-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-job-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-revision-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resource-manager/containerapps/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
- aid: azure-container-apps:azure-container-apps-revisions-api
  name: Azure Container Apps Revisions API
  description: Manage container app revisions
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-apps
  tags:
  - Revisions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-apps-revisions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-schema/azure-container-apps-container-app-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resource-manager/containerapps/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/azure-container-apps/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/azure-container-apps-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/azure-container-apps-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/azure-container-apps-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/azure-container-apps-scopes.yml
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-activate-latest-revision-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Activate Latest Revision
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-audit-app-security-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Audit App Security
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-decommission-app-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Decommission App
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-deploy-app-into-new-environment-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Deploy App Into New Environment
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-enable-dapr-sidecar-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Enable Dapr Sidecar
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-provision-and-run-job-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Provision and Run Job
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-provision-container-app-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Provision Container App
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-provision-managed-environment-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Provision Managed Environment
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-restart-active-revision-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Restart Active Revision
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-rotate-and-verify-secrets-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Rotate and Verify Secrets
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-run-existing-job-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Run Existing Job
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-shift-revision-traffic-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Shift Revision Traffic
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/azure-container-apps-update-app-and-list-revisions-workflow.yml
  name: Azure Container Apps Update App and List Revisions
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/get-started
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-container-apps
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: Blog
  url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-apps/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.azure.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Signup
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- type: Support
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/faq
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/rules/azure-container-apps-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/azure-container-apps-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-apps/refs/heads/main/json-ld/azure-container-apps-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Serverless Containers
    description: Run containers without managing servers or Kubernetes cluster infrastructure.
  - name: Built-in Autoscaling
    description: Automatically scale based on HTTP traffic, event messages, or custom KEDA scalers.
  - name: Traffic Splitting
    description: Gradually shift traffic between container revisions for canary deployments and A/B testing.
  - name: Dapr Integration
    description: Built-in support for the Dapr distributed application runtime for service discovery and state management.
  - name: Managed Environments
    description: Shared networking and logging infrastructure for groups of container apps.
  - name: Dynamic Sessions
    description: Secure, ephemeral code-interpreter and custom container sessions with data-plane REST APIs.
  - name: Jobs Support
    description: Schedule and run containerized batch jobs on demand or on a schedule.
  - name: GPU Support
    description: Deploy AI/ML workloads on GPU-enabled container instances.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Microservices Architecture
    description: Deploy and scale individual microservices independently with built-in service discovery.
  - name: API Backend Deployment
    description: Host REST APIs with automatic HTTPS, custom domains, and traffic management.
  - name: Event-Driven Processing
    description: Process messages from Service Bus, Event Hubs, and storage queues with KEDA-based scaling.
  - name: AI and ML Workloads
    description: Run AI inference workloads on GPU-enabled container instances with dynamic sessions.
  - name: Background Jobs
    description: Run scheduled and on-demand batch jobs without maintaining dedicated infrastructure.
  - name: Dapr Microservices
    description: Build microservices with Dapr for pub/sub messaging, service invocation, and state management.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Azure Kubernetes Service
    description: Share underlying Kubernetes infrastructure while abstracting cluster management complexity.
  - name: Azure Container Registry
    description: Pull container images directly from private ACR registries with managed identity.
  - name: Azure Service Bus
    description: Trigger container app scaling based on Service Bus queue depth.
  - name: Azure Event Hubs
    description: Process streaming data from Event Hubs with auto-scaling.
  - name: GitHub Actions
    description: Deploy container apps directly from GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.
  - name: Dapr
    description: Built-in Dapr runtime support for distributed systems patterns.
  - name: Azure Monitor
    description: Native integration with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for observability.
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://portal.azure.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com