The Microsoft
reveals Azure Container Instances also known as ACI, which is a fast and easy method
to bring the Linux containers into the cloud, it does need a large amount of management
work. The director of compute for Microsoft Azure told a blog that the Microsoft
Azure Container Instances are the fastest and easiest method to run any
container in the cloud.
The news
explains that the Microsoft Azure Container Instances take only a few seconds to
be deployed, by using the billing tags all deployed containers are billed by
the second. To confirm the container fit, the administrator could select the amount
of memory, number of vCPUs and many others. Also offering RBAC (Role Based
Access Control), so there is no need of VM management tier or cluster
orchestration tools to start. The news said that "It is simply your code, in a container, running in the cloud."
The user
has many options for Microsoft Azure Container Instances like the Azure CLI (command
line interface), templates and many more. Other features for the users are they
can deploy from a public repository, Docker Hub and from a private repository. Here
the Microsoft is using the virtualization technique to make sure the container
remains isolated from the time of deployment by others.
At present,
Azure container instances are available only for the Linux containers, after
some period of time user could get the support of Windows container. Actually ACI’s
are not container orchestrators, they are planned to contribute orchestrators
as another ‘building block’ for any organization’s container method.
As they
said the company also launched the ACI Connector for Kubernetes, this is an
open source connector which allows the users to deploy ACI from Kubernetes. Presently
Microsoft Company provides a free service in the name of ACI (Azure Container
Service).