Container Services in Azure Roadmap

by
Jim Gaynor

by
Jim Gaynor

Jim leads the Directions on Microsoft editorial team and has been writing about technology since the early 1990s. Most recently... more

In addition to the company’s flagship Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft offers services that exist to support or simplify deployment of container-based applications. Azure Container Apps (ACA) allows customers to deploy Linux containers on a serverless, scalable platform without the overhead of managing a Kubernetes cluster. Azure Container Instances (ACI) offers a simple way to run Linux or Windows containers individually or in groups without deploying worker node VMs and can integrate with AKS for orchestration. Lastly, Azure Container Registry (ACR) enables customers to create and maintain private container registries that are used to store and deploy container images.

Product: Container Services in Azure

Azure Container Apps

Near Term (2025-2026)

ACA serverless graphics processing unit (GPU) support for Azure AI Foundry models, in preview, can enable Foundry models in ACA to take advantage of automatic scaling and per-second pricing.

Rule-based routing, in preview, allows customers to create a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for their environment and route requests to different container apps based on the path of the request.