• Basic container as service
• Can be windows or linux
  • But some features are linux specific
• Can be useful for one-off things/burst
• Multi-container groups on same host
  • only for linux based containers
• Can be deployed in vNet
• can mount additional storage
  • azure file share

Container group

• top level resource
• deployed on one VM
• containers in a group share same resources
• similar to pod in kubernetes
• Environment variables can be set with —environment-variables
  • passwords etc with secureValue
• when deploying multi-container groups
  • yaml for only containers
  • arm templates in case volumes need to be attached as well

az container create

New-AzContainerGroup

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MS Learn