How to deploy your first Azure Container App with Bicep and the AZ CLI 💪

[@kamaleshwaran06]

You are an awesome teacher!! Very calm and clear!!

[@JoeMcKnight-z6y]

Just discovered your channel, excellent so far, many thanks!!!

[@willvelida]

Thank you so much! If you have any requests on what you'd like to see, please let me know!

[@grif.n]

Hi Will, thanks for the great content - very helpful! I have a question about azd and how it builds/deploys containers automatically. When I used `azd up` it seems to automatically build an image and deploy it with a repository and tag in ACR. I'm not sure how to properly reference it in other parts of my bicep templates or how to customize any of the naming etc.

[@kamaleshwaran06]

Can i dynamically create a container environment with multiple container apps?

[@davidclare655]

If I am using Private Endpoints for Azure Redis or Azure Cosmos then i dont need a vNet?

[@gpzim981]

Great tutorial. How can I refer to images that I stored on my private Azure Container Registry?

[@willvelida]

You can pass the name of your image as a parameter in your Bicep file, and then pass it through as a inline parameter during your ci/cd.

[@SwampyFox]

Thanks! I was able to work through this to learn bicep/aca! And it worked!!! woohoo! Thanks.

[@JohnGoldsmith-y4w]

Really useful - thanks Will. Is there a reason you don’t define the resource group in the template, or is it just the setup you had for this walkthrough? Thanks again.

[@SulaimanM96]

I'm currently deploying using Bamboo Windows Powershell script. It was hard coding the environment values in bamboo, so whenever I deploy, my container environment variables will have a source type of 'Manual Entry'. I want to update this to Reference a secret type and then just give the name of my secret in my deployment script. Do you know how to update container app's source type in environment variables via script?

[@willvelida]

Hmm that's not something I've ever done before, but looking at the Azure PowerShell docs, it looks like you can create a new secret in Container Apps with New-AzContainerAppSecretObject. You can then update the Container App with the secret using Update-AzContainerApp, and then passing the secret object to a New-AzContainerAppConfigurationObject in the -Secret parameter: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.app/update-azcontainerapp?view=azps-11.4.0 Let me know if this helps or not. If it doesn't, I'll try and dig up the answer for you when I'm back from holidays 😊

[@AizenTaicho-ci1nb]

Could you do one deploying simple container app using the new AVM bicep framework?

[@willvelida]

You can! I've just published a new video that deploys a ACA environment and app using AVM bicep: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWWTf4GnftOgb5I

[@BrianHallmanac]

Nice job! I thought the max scale-out was 30 instances and not 10. Am I thinking of something else?

[@willvelida]

Thanks Brian! Just did a quick check of the docs, and it looks like the max scale out value is 300! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/scale-app?pivots=azure-cli#scale-definition Thanks for spotting that! I'll make an edit to the video when I have a chance 😊

[@BrianHallmanac]

@@willvelida Oh wow! That’s news to me! I had heard that they were going to increase it, but I did not know that they were going to go that far. That’s pretty cool!

[@willvelida]

@BrianHallmanac me neither! They must have had some demand for it from developers who need to scale out, but want to avoid managing Kubernetes at all cost 😁 Really useful though 😊

[@sergeykichuk2586]

Where is the usage of Azure Container Registry??