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How To Deploy a Docker Container on Azure Cloud ?


In this post, we will explore How To Deploy a Docker Container on Azure Cloud ? With the help of Docker Azure Integration, we can use native Docker commands to run applications within ACI(Azure Container Instances) for building cloud-native applications. We can use Azure Container Instances to -

  • Run serverless Docker containers in Azure.
  • Deploy to a container instance on-demand for developling cloud-native apps.
  • Switch to cloud deployment from local devlopment.
 

Prerequisites:

  • Docker Desktop latest version OR Docker Compose CLI for Linux
  • Azure account
 

Step 1:

  • Log into Azure


 docker login azure
  • This will take you to Azure login page in the browser.  Sometimes however if Docker CLI can not trigger the process it will fall back to the Azure device code flow.  And then you will have to connect manually.
 

  • As an alternative route, you can log in using an Azure Service Principal as shown below -


docker login azure --client-id xx --client-secret yy --tenant-id zz

Step 2:

  • I assume you are able to log in to the Azure ecosystem.
 

  • Create a Docker context associated with ACI to deploy containers in ACI. This will require Azure subscription, a resource group, and a region.


docker context create aci <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME>
  • The above command automatically identifies subscription IDs and resource groups based on Azure login. This prompts you to select the subscription and group. You can also choose to specify these options in the CLI.


docker context create aci <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME>  --subscription-id <> --resource-group <> --location <>
  • The ACI context will be created. List your Docker contexts to view. It should show your context.


docker context ls

Step 3:

As per previous step, ACI context is ready. So you can start using Docker commands to deploy containers on ACI.

Option 1:

  • You can use the --context flag with the Docker command to specify that you would like to run the command using your ACI context.


docker --context <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME> run -p 80:80 nginx
  • You can also set the default context as your context


docker context use <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME>

Option 2:

  • Alternatively change context using docker context use. Select the ACI context to for running Docker commands.


docker context use <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME>

docker run -p 80:80 nginx
  • Once switched to the your context,  list containers running on ACI.


docker ps
  • You can also set the default context as your context


docker context use <YOUR\_CONTEXT\_NAME>

Step 4:

Below are some of the Docker commands. For more commands, use our post - Docker Commands List With Examples and Cheatsheet

  • View logs from container


    docker logs <CONTAINER\_ID>
 

  • To execute a command in a running container


docker exec -t <CONTAINER\_ID> COMMAND
  • To stop and remove a container from ACI


docker stop <CONTAINER\_ID>

docker rm <CONTAINER\_ID>
  • Remove containers


docker rm
  • To remove a running container, use  --force flag . OR First Stop the container and then remove it.
  Hope this post helps.  

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