Exploring Azure Container Apps: Scaling Modern and Cloud-Native Apps and Microservices

by Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Taiseer Joudeh, Wael Kdouh

Overview

Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools needed to harness the full potential of Azure Container Apps, Microsoft's cutting-edge platform for orchestrating and scaling containerized applications effortlessly.

Begin your journey with an introduction to Azure Container Apps (ACA), uncovering its unique features, benefits, and use cases. Further, you will dive into setting up and using Azure Container Registry (ACR) to efficiently store and manage container images, while mastering best practices for access control and security. You will also explore the intricacies along with comprehensive guides on deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting. You will learn how to integrate the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) with Azure Container Apps, explore best practices for seamless integration, and leverage its powerful building blocks for state management and pub/sub mechanisms. In conclusion, you will navigate the complexities of communication between microservices within Azure Container Apps environments, exploring various communication patterns and techniques.

After reading this book, you will be able to work with ACA and implement the modern application deployment and scaling with Azure Container Apps with KEDA.

What You Will Learn:

· Building and Deploying Backend API and Frontend UI to ACA

· Communication between different Microservices inside ACA

· Integration with Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr)

· State management inside ACA

· Scheduling and managing backend jobs

· Monitoring with Application insights

· Kubernetes Event Driven AutoScaler (KEDA)

Who This Book is For:

Application developers, DevOps Engineers and Tech Enthusiasts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798868814853
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/13/2025
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri works for Microsoft as a senior software engineering manager in Azure SQL product. He has more than 16 years of experience in designing and developing several products within Microsoft, ranging from SSIS, MDS, and currently in Azure SQL db. He has deep knowledge in cloud computing, distributed systems, artificial intelligence (AI), microservice-based architecture, cloud-native apps, and has experience working in three different Microsoft centers (India, China, USA). Santhosh has authored and published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed and indexed journals. He is a core MVB blogger at Dzone and an active senior IEEE member handling various conferences as Technical Chair at the Seattle IEEE region. He frequently speaks and presents at various conferences about AI and cloud computing and you can contact him on Linkedin at naga-santhosh-reddy-vootukuri-5a67a133/.

Taiseer Joudeh works for Microsoft Consultation Services as a Principal App Dev Consultant. He has more than 15 years of experience in developing and managing different software solutions for the finance, transportation, logistics, and e-commerce sectors. Taiseer has been deeply involved in .NET development since the early framework versions were developed, and has knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud-native apps, and Microsoft Azure.

Wael Kdouh is a seasoned Architect with over 20 years of experience developing innovative solutions for leading software companies. He has successfully led the completion of several mission critical projects in multiple sectors such Airline Solutions and Retail. Wael holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern Methodist university (SMU). As a Principal Cloud Architect at Microsoft, Wael spends the majority of his time assisting Microsoft customers with architecting cloud-native applications. He also is manging open source projects such as APIOps and others. You will find him actively blogging on Medium and occasionally tweeting on X. You can stay in touch with Wael on LinkedIn.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Container Apps.- Chapter 2: Deploying First Containerized App to Azure Container Apps.- Chapter 3: Creating and Deploying Frontend Blazor Web Application.- Chapter 4: Integrating Dapr with Azure Container Apps.- Chapter 5: Async Communication with Dapr Pub/Sub API.- Chapter 6: ACA Scheduled Jobs with Dapr .- Chapter 7: Monitoring and Observability.- Chapter 8: Auto Scaling with KEDA.