Setup your Azure Container Apps projects with Terraform

In this series of tutorial you will discover how to setup your Azure Container Apps projects with Terraform. The goal is to show you a full implementation of a concrete scenario.

What is Azure Container Apps?

Azure Container Apps is a service from Azure that allows you to run your containers in a serverless environment. It’s a fully Azure managed service that allows you to run your containers without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.

This service is really interesting for developers because it allows you to run your containers without having to have strong knowledge on infrasture technologies like Kubernetes. You can focus on your code and let Azure manage the rest.

You can find more information about this service in the official documentation.

What do you need?

To be able to do this series entirely you will need:

• An Azure account.
• Azure CLI.
• Terraform install on your machine

What will you do?

In this series you will learn how to create this architecture:

This architecture is composed of a few things:

• An Azure Container Registry to store your images
• An Azure Container Apps environment
• An Azure Cosmos DB to store your data
• An Azure Log Analytics Workspace to store your logs
• An Azure Managed Grafana instance to monitor your environment

Inside the Azure Container Apps environment you will have:

• A frontend application that will be accessible from the internet
• The associated backend API used by the web application

This application code is based on the official Microsoft Learn samples. The goal of this application is to rate fruits. The result of each vote is then stored in an Azure Cosmos DB database.

All the source code for each part will be available on GitHub.

Summary

• Prepare your Azure Container Registry for your Azure Container Apps using Terraform
• Create an Azure Container Apps environment using Terraform
• Define your containers inside your Azure Container Apps environment using Terraform
• Define secrets and environment variables in Azure Container Apps using Terraform
• Add Azure Managed Grafana to monitor your Azure Container Apps with Terraform

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