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Easily run containers on Azure with a single command
- Get started in seconds with containers and control your infrastructure costs by taking advantage of per-second billing
- No Virtual Machine (VM) management
- Skip the need to learn new container orchestration tools—it's just your application, in a container, running in the cloud
- Enterprise grade security with hypervisor isolation
- Pay per use - container instances are billed on a per-second, per-vCPU, per-GB of memory
- Specify core count, memory amount, and other container attributes using command-line parameters
- Easily deploy images from Docker Hub or Azure Container Registry
Start using containers right away
Get up and running easily without learning new orchestration concepts or programming models. Easily start deploying containers to support your targeted use cases or other application development and testing scenarios. Containerize your application using Docker technology and execute immediately with one click.
Scale containers on demand
Realize infrastructure savings by taking advantage of per-second billing and container-based compute on demand. Pull container images from Docker Hub or Azure Container Registry, and start a container in seconds with a single command.
Find the Azure service for your container needs
| If you're looking for this... | Use This |
|---|---|
| Scale and orchestrate containers using Kubernetes, DC/OS or Docker Swarm | Azure Container Service (AKS) |
| Easily run containers on Azure with a single command | Container Instances |
| Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments | Container Registry |
| Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux | Service Fabric |
| Deploy web applications on Linux using containers | App Service |
| Run repetitive compute jobs using containers | Batch |