Azure Container Apps: Do We Need Yet Another Managed Container Service?

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At https://myignite.microsoft.com/home conference earlier this month, Microsoft https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/introducing-azure-container-apps-a-serverless-container-service/ba-p/2867265 the public preview of a new https://thenewstack.io/category/serverless/ container platform branded as https://aka.ms/containerapps. Microsoft is positioning Azure Container Apps as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer for AKS.

Behind the scenes, Container Apps run on top of a hidden, abstract Kubernetes cluster based on AKS.

You may argue that services like AWS App Runner, Google Cloud Run, and the newly-minted Azure Container Apps deliver the developer experience.

It is obvious that platform providers such as Google and Microsoft are leveraging their open source investments to offer opaque, managed services on their cloud platforms.

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