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Quickstart: Deploy your first container app with containerapp up

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The Azure Container Apps service enables you to run microservices and containerized applications on a serverless platform. With Container Apps, you enjoy the benefits of running containers while you leave behind the concerns of manually configuring cloud infrastructure and complex container orchestrators.

In this quickstart, you create and deploy your first container app using the az containerapp up command.

Prerequisites

Setup

To sign in to Azure from the CLI, run the following command and follow the prompts to complete the authentication process.

Azure CLI 
az login

To ensure you're running the latest version of the CLI, run the upgrade command.

Azure CLI 
az upgrade

Next, install or update the Azure Container Apps extension for the CLI.

If you receive errors about missing parameters when you run az containerapp commands in Azure CLI or cmdlets from the Az.App module in PowerShell, be sure you have the latest version of the Azure Container Apps extension installed.

Azure CLI 
az extension add --name containerapp --upgrade

Note

Starting in May 2024, Azure CLI extensions no longer enable preview features by default. To access Container Apps preview features, install the Container Apps extension with --allow-preview true.

Azure CLI 
az extension add --name containerapp --upgrade --allow-preview true

Now that the current extension or module is installed, register the Microsoft.App and Microsoft.OperationalInsights namespaces.

Azure CLI 
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.App
Azure CLI 
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.OperationalInsights

Create and deploy the container app

Create and deploy your first container app with the containerapp up command. This command will:

  • Create the Container Apps environment
  • Create the Log Analytics workspace
  • Create and deploy the container app using a public container image

Note that if any of these resources already exist, the command will use them instead of creating new ones.

Azure CLI 
az containerapp up \
  --name my-container-app \
  --resource-group my-container-apps \
  --location centralus \
  --environment 'my-container-apps' \
  --image mcr.microsoft.com/k8se/quickstart:latest \
  --target-port 80 \
  --ingress external \
  --query properties.configuration.ingress.fqdn

Note

Make sure the value for the --image parameter is in lower case.

By setting --ingress to external, you make the container app available to public requests.

Verify deployment

The up command returns the fully qualified domain name for the container app. Copy this location to a web browser.

The following message is displayed when the container app is deployed:

Screenshot of container app web page.

Clean up resources

If you're not going to continue to use this application, run the following command to delete the resource group along with all the resources created in this quickstart.

Caution

The following command deletes the specified resource group and all resources contained within it. If resources outside the scope of this quickstart exist in the specified resource group, they will also be deleted.

Azure CLI 
az group delete --name my-container-apps

Tip

Having issues? Let us know on GitHub by opening an issue in the Azure Container Apps repo.

Next steps

Communication between microservices