Azure Container Instance Play Around

To start with Azure Container Instance, we will need to install Azure CLI tool, which is a tool to manage Azure from the command line.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-macos?view=azure-cli-latest

I installed Azure CLI on my Mac OS EI Capitan 

brew update && brew install azure-cli

then encountered this error:

Follow the instruction to install Xcode Command Line tools

Click on Install and agree with the agreement

It will take a while to download

Run again 

brew update && brew install azure-cli

The following dependencies will be installed:

openssl, sqlite, gdbm, python3

Once finished, use the following command to login to your azure account.

az login

Follow the instruction to login from browser

Once done, you can close the browser window

Then you will be able to see your subscription from the command line

Then run the following command to create a new resource group

az group create --name testACI --location eastus

Then run 

az container create --name simpleservice --image magneticio/simpleservice:1.0.0 --resource-group testACI --ip-address public --port 3000

to create a service

You can always run the following command to see the service detail

 az container show --name simpleservice --resource-group testACI

Find ip address and port number from the output

Now try to browse it from the browser

How to host my own stuff? Leave it next time!

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Feng