Microsoft Azure recently announced the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI). This is a serverless method of running Linux and Windows containers. The tool allows development teams to run rapid deployment of containers without CM management. It also has automatic and elastic scale. According to the post, when this technology was announced last summer, it was the first service to deliver serverless containers in the public cloud.
The post states customers are using ACI due to its security model. Each individual container s protected at a hypervisor level. This provides a strong security boundary for multi-tenant scenarios. “It can sometimes be a challenge to secure multi-tenant workloads running inside containers on the same virtual machine.”
Protecting each individual container is valuable, as is enabling them to be isolated. The hosting cluster with ACI is unique, but it shouldn’t be your only security option for containers. This doesn’t change the fact many people are liberal in their usage of GitHub. ACI is a great tool for increasing the safety of containers themselves, but proper practices are still important for keeping your development pipeline safe.
In addition to ACI availability and security, Microsoft has also lowered the prices for Azure Container Instances. It is now cheaper to deploy individual containers. The new pricing model makes the initial creation free. This used to cost $0.0025 per instance created, so this is a valuable difference.
“When we first launched ACI, we also created an experimental version of the ACI Connector for Kubernetes. It provided the benefits of ACI’s per-second billing and zero infrastructure execution via the portable Kubernetes API”
Be sure to read the full press release at the Azure blog here.
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Doug Atkinson
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