Azure Container Instances(ACI) use-cases and roadmap
summary
Fast provisioning ACI runs containers without VM management and supports Linux and Windows, VNet-injected groups, and up to 16 GB memory and 4 vCPU per container. Use cases: bursty batch (a finance firm scales to 10,000 container groups in ~20 minutes), AKS Virtual Nodes via KEDA to spin 100 pods from an Azure Queue, self-hosted CI runners, ML training/inference. New offerings: Spot Containers (interruptible, up to 70% discount) and confidential containers using a CCE policy plus Azure Attestation and Key Vault.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to ACI
- 1:11What is ACI?
- 2:59ACI in the Azure landscape
- 4:53Common ACI use cases
- 5:41Customer success stories
- 9:39Security best practices
- 11:20Features and limitations
- 12:57Virtual nodes demo
- 18:28Spot containers on ACI
- 19:28Confidential containers demo
- 23:34Confidential computing use cases
- 26:19Roadmap and resources
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