# Azure Container Apps

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/azure-container-apps/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 56.8 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 71.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Azure Container Apps Agentic Access** — 22 operations · 12 acting

## Security (2)

- **Azure Container Apps Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Azure Container Apps Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Azure Container Apps Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **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.

## Tags

Azure, Containers, Dapr, Kubernetes, Microservices, Serverless

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/azure-container-apps/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.