Learning Azure Container Apps based on this guide from Microsoft

This repo contains code to deploy the Dapr hello-world application on Azure Container Apps with Dapr using Azure Storage Account for storing state.

• 🔨 Azure PowerShell and AZ CLI for interaction with Azure
• ⚙️ PowerShell for deployment script
• 💪 Bicep for Infrastructure as Code

(diagram by Microsoft - CC BY 4.0)

1. Install/update Azure PowerShell module
2. Install/update Azure CLI
   • Install containerapp extension: az extension add --name containerapp --upgrade (as of May 2022 this is not available in Azure PowerShell)
3. Install/update Bicep CLI
4. Connect to Azure:
   • Az Pwsh: Connect-AzAccount
   • az cli: az login
5. Set Context:
   • Az Pwsh: Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName <subscription name>
   • az cli: az account set --name <subscription name>
6. Register resource provider: Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.App

Open PowerShell and run deploy.ps1 to deploy the resources:

./deploy.ps1

# Example output
🚀 Deploying container apps...(this will take a few minutes)

✔️  Deploy succeeded! API url:
https://nodeapp.<unique name>.canadacentral.azurecontainerapps.io/order

⌛ Waiting for a minute before querying api and logs...

🔎 Querying /order API...
{
  "orderId": 99
}

🗒️  Querying logs from Log Analytics Workspace. Listing 5 latest entries...
[
  {
    "ContainerAppName_s": "nodeapp",
    "Log_s": "Got a new order! Order ID: 83",
    "TimeGenerated": "2022-05-20T21:36:37.839Z"
  },
  {
    "ContainerAppName_s": "nodeapp",
    "Log_s": "Got a new order! Order ID: 84",
    "TimeGenerated": "2022-05-20T21:36:37.839Z"
  },
  {
    "ContainerAppName_s": "nodeapp",
    "Log_s": "Got a new order! Order ID: 85",
    "TimeGenerated": "2022-05-20T21:36:39.674Z"
  },
  {
    "ContainerAppName_s": "nodeapp",
    "Log_s": "Got a new order! Order ID: 60",
    "TimeGenerated": "2022-05-20T21:36:13.533Z"
  },
  {
    "ContainerAppName_s": "nodeapp",
    "Log_s": "Got a new order! Order ID: 64",
    "TimeGenerated": "2022-05-20T21:36:17.643Z"
  }
]

The services deployed are designed for demo purposes and they are quite chatty, which will result in Azure cost (mostly compute, logging, storage). Around $2-$3 daily.

To clean up resources run the following command:

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name dapr-containerapps-demo -Force

The steps needed for this demo are closely based on this guide from Microsoft. The deployment logic and Bicep templates have been updated by me to fit an end-to-end demo deployment scenario and to use latest versions of tooling/providers.

The application deployed is the Dapr hello-world application.