Azure Container Instances Reviews & Product Details

Azure Container Instances: With Azure container instances, we don't have to manage the underlying infrastructure for our application (serverless architecture) and using Azure CLI we can deploy our Docker container and make it available with a DNS name. We can deploy our container instance through various means such as using Azure CLI, PowerShell, ARM (Azure Resource Manager) template, Terraform, and using Docker CLI.

Web App for Containers: This is very useful to just pull our application container images either from Docker Hub or private Azure Container Registry and deploy it in seconds. This functionality automatically takes care of load balancing, OS patching, and capacity provisioning.

There are much more container services available such as Azure Kubernetes Service - to deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes, Azure Red Hat OpenShift - to deploy and scale containers on managed Red Hat OpenShift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could be a financial burden for small businesses or startups as it incurs high costs when an Azure Container Instance runs 24/7 compared to running a virtual machine instance. Also, it lacks some features such as fewer customization options compared to other container management solutions like Docker and Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the help of container we can save costs by taking up and moving existing applications to containers, and build microservices applications to deliver value faster. By using end-to-end development and CI/CD tools to develop, update, and deploy containerized applications can also manage containers at scale with a fully managed Kubernetes container management and orchestration service that integrates with Azure Active Directory. No matter where in your app modernization journey, accelerate containerized application development while meeting security requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its is comparatively expensive than other services its value for money can be increased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It is easy to implement and manage.

2. High Availability and Scalable

3. Inter communication between container and integration is easy.

4. Easy to upgrade and customer support available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are frequent updates for AKS cluster and containers upgrade, and with upgrades, containers' memory and resource consumption also increases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Latest products and especially AKS microservices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Might be slow in updating resources like nsg Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the documentation is well-made for most languages. It has been easy to use since the day I started.

I like that the support team is well-trained for most scenarios and gives swift responses.

I also like that they arrange calls if you have a complicated issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think their documentation for the Go language needs to be significantly improved. API documentation for Go has syntax errors in them.

Too much customisation and options for doing the same thing sometimes gets confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After getting the Student Developer pack from Github and then signing on to Azure as a student only, I got a lot of benefits, like a $100 credit for the first 12 months plus select free services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While signing up or signing in, I faced problems despite entering valid credentials; authentications failed and declared the login to be a bad request and then after a few more attempts after signing in to GitHub first and then successfully being able to login to the Azure portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Azure outpaces Google Cloud and Amazon AWS in its market reach, making it a better choice for low latency locally deployed resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with many things Microsoft, intuitiveness is lacking in how different resources relate to each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has all the functions, it has the best machine learning service platform. We can easily deploy our models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation are not clear. Face difficulties in understanding a service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Container Instances allows you to instantly create a secure container for development use - without the need for virtual machines. This allows you to run any instances that can operate in isolated containers. These have many advantages over standard virtual machines.

Positives:Much faster to start than virtual machines

Minimal provisioning/management needed compared to virtual machines

Security - isolated to a hypervisor level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Running a constant 24 hours a day instance on the platform is much more expensive than running a virtual machine instance 24/7

User interface isn't always the most intuitive - relatively new service so some sub-context menus aren't quite logical yet

However, this is a great service and I think that the positives outweigh the negatives, especially with MS Azure's superb customer/client relations team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can use the portal to create a container, no need to worry about provisioning virtual machines to host the container or installing software. Instances can be created with a single-line PowerShell command and will be up-and-running in minutes. Azure Container Instances also support container groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not yet possible to attach them to an Azure virtual network. Running an instance 24/7 will be more expensive than running a virtual machine of the same size. More expensive than Amazon Container Service, which has been the most popular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.